Cross-Party Calls For Rogue Landlords To Lose Properties

MPs have called on the government to confiscate properties from the country’s worst landlords after a series of revelations about tenants being exploited by rogue sections of the private rented housing sector. The calls followed a hard-hitting select committee report in April, as well as a joint Guardian and ITV News investigation which last month revealed that convicted landlords ruled unfit to rent out their properties were continuing to operate by exploiting a gap in the law. MPs from across the Commons have urged the housing minister Heather Wheeler to introduce new powers to seize properties of the worst landlords. Read more on the Guardian website.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/29/mps-call-for-rogue-landlords-to-lose-properties