New “right to rent” rules essentially mean landlords must
carry out a government-approved check on all prospective tenants to confirm
that they have a right to live in the UK.
One group in particular that could suffer under the new rules: domestic
violence victims, particularly if they are migrant women. Migrant women in the
UK are also not entitled to legal aid, benefits, and may be at a disadvantage
with language skills. Migrant women with documents, meanwhile, are likely to
have them taken away by controlling partners: hiding a women's passport is a
classic abuser tactic, and could affect non-migrants too, since landlords are
technically meant to check every tenant's right to rent. Read more on the
CityMetric website.
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