Labour Strategy to Target Private Rented Sector

Labour will soon be launching tough proposals for the private rented sector, shadow housing minister Jack Dromey told delegates at a homelessness conference.  Mr Dromey said the PRS strategy would be a ‘radically different model’ from the Conservative policy and he would ‘make it work’.  ‘The outcome we want is a sector good for tenants and good for reputable landlords, and a more suitable long term market which levers in institutional investment,’ he said in a speech at single homeless people’s charity Crisis’ annual conference in London. He would not give any details about the proposals but said they were likely to be unveiled in July and hinted they would be the first of more housing strategies to come from Labour. ‘Watch this space,’ he said.  Read more on Inside Housing.