Council Gives Advance Rent To Landlords Backing Homelessness Scheme

Private landlords are to be given a month’s rent upfront and 12 months’ membership of a trade body if they sign up to a local council’s new scheme to combat homelessness. The scheme, run by Stroud council, is similar in principle to others that exist - the landlord agrees that the council lets their property to a homeless or vulnerable tenant in return for a guaranteed rent, and the pledge that the property will be returned to the landlord in the same condition at the end of the tenancy. Read more on the Letting Agent Today website.

https://www.lettingagenttoday.co.uk/breaking-news/2019/9/council-gives-advance-rent-to-landlords-backing-homelessness-scheme