A new law designed to help protect people renting homes
from rogue landlords isn't working, say MPs and housing lawyers. Faulty
electrics, damp and broken boilers that don't get fixed are all officially
classed as category one hazards which pose a risk to health. But many private
tenants are worried that if they complain too much, they will be evicted. The
law in England changed in 2015 to make "revenge evictions" illegal.
But despite that change, figures gathered by Radio 1 Newsbeat through Freedom
of Information requests show that more than half of local councils across
England haven't used these powers. Read more on the BBC website.
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