A campaign has been launched by a renters' rights group
for hopeful tenants claiming housing benefits to stop letting agents and
landlords routinely rejecting them. A
protest was held in East London last month by Digs, supporters of Hackney
tenants, to kick off their #YesDSS campaign. Between December 2015 and February 2016, the group
carried out a mystery shopper survey of 50 estate agents in Hackney to find out
how many letting agents would accept tenants claiming housing benefit. It found
there was just one studio flat available to tenants in Hackney receiving any
kind of state support. According to Digs, agents generally blamed landlords for
not being keen on DSS (the now defunct Department of Social Security) tenants.
Landlord concerns included benefit claimants not paying the rent on time or
housing benefit money taking too long to come through. Read more on the BT
website.
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