More should be done to establish the scale of so-called
‘revenge evictions’ before legislation is brought in to tackle the problem, a
group of MPs has said. Lib Dem peers have since proposed realising the plans by
including them as an amendment to the Deregulation Bill currently being debated
in the Lords. But a new report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the
Private Rented Sector claims that without more evidence it’s still not clear
whether legislation is “necessarily the best tool” to tackle the problem. The
report reads: “Too often on private rented housing it has become very easy to
call for greater regulations here or there without a proper assessment of what
is and isn’t working." Read more on 24dash.
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