A leading housing lawyer has condemned feedback on the
Right to Rent pilot scheme as a fiasco and
“even worse than I expected”. Giles Peaker was commenting on the Joint
Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) report on the Right to Rent pilot
that has been taking place in the west midlands since last December. Peaker, a
partner at law firm Anthony Gold, said the policy “is going to have to take
some quite astonishing justification in any Home Office evaluation to take
forward nationally. “It is, on a
purely practical basis, a fiasco”. The JCWI report found that 69% of landlords
do not feel they should be made to undertake checks and 77% are not in favour
of a national roll-out. Read more on the propertyindustryeye website.
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