The lack of decent, affordable housing in Derby and around the country is a huge issue – and yet the Tory-Lib Dem Government has cut the budget for building new affordable homes by 60 per cent.
There has been a massive increase in the number of people who rent their homes privately, including more than one million families with children. Rents are rising, pushing up the housing benefit, in spite of the appalling cuts being inflicted on low income households by this callous coalition.
There has also been a rise in problems with renting. Whilst estate agents can be banned for bad practice, lettings agents are not subject to the same complaints and redress procedures.
Labour will introduce a national register of landlords and grant local authorities greater powers to root out and strike off rogue landlords. This would make it easier for local authorities to tackle rogue landlords found to have broken the rules.
We would also provide a system for people to get redress when a lettings agent has ripped them off, just like we have for estate agents.
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