Private landlords have instructed letting agents not to
let to “any foreigners” as a result of the Right to Rent checks, a government
report has found. The finding was included in a Home Office evaluation into the
government’s scheme to force landlords to check the migration status of their
tenants or face a fine of up to £3,000 per tenant. Ministers today also said
the scheme, which has been piloted in the West Midlands since December 2014,
will be rolled out across the country from February 2016. The Home Office
report said: “[Letting agents] reported that they had landlords who had
instructed them not to let to non-European Economic Area (EEA) applicants or to
‘any foreigners’.” Download the report from the Home Office website.
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