Housing Secretary hails rent reforms and issues warning to rogue landlords
Landlords will gain from a more professional rental market, Steve Reed claims, but tells those who break the rules: “We see you.”
Housing Secretary Steve Reed has hailed the Renters’ Rights Act as the “biggest shake-up” for tenants in a generation, and says it has brought an end to a system that was “stacked against working people who rent”.
He told LBC the changes would take away the fear of having “the roof over their heads ripped away for no good reason” and said the Government is now “calling time on rogue landlords”.
Security for tenants
“We’re giving tenants the security and dignity of a home they can count on. It’s about time.
“I’ve met so many families, young people, and others who have had their lives turned upside down, who have been too scared to challenge poor living conditions and spiralling rents.
“That changes now,” and added that the reforms would deliver “real change – real savings in costs and stress” and allow families to “put down roots” so “a child knows which school they’ll be at next year”.
He acknowledged “the vast majority of landlords do right by their tenants”, and said they would gain from “a more professional rental market” but promised a “crackdown on those who let everyone down.
These new rights have real teeth.”
“As for the landlords who tried to beat the ban by racing to evict tenants unnecessarily before today: we see you.
“This disgraceful behaviour stops now. It’s time to clean up your act.”
The Government, Reed warned, is “making sure these new rights have real teeth”, backing councils with £41 million to “hold bad landlords to account”, and that the reforms “finally” give renters “the protections and peace of mind of somewhere they can truly call home.”
No time at all for bad landlords but there are more bad tenants in my experience. Also so far Steve not one tenant I have explained the new rules to support them. They hate the fact they now will have to give more than two months notice and they really do not like the fact there is no fixed period.
In short so far the tenants do not really like this all that much.
Oh and just in case I forget you have reduced the rental pool of property dramatically cutting down choice and driving rents up. All round Baldrick doesn’t think much of your cunning plan.