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Pages tagged "licensing"


Licensing landlords drives up standards in England

Posted on Latest news by Dan Wilson Craw · October 24, 2021 10:14 AM · 1 reaction

Councils that require landlords to be licensed take more than twice as much enforcement action as those that don’t.

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Licensing schemes protect tenants - so let's do more

Posted on Latest news by Sam Hurst · June 30, 2021 11:17 AM · 1 reaction

The licensing of rented properties makes it much easier for tenants to enforce their rights. It also helps to tackle criminal landlords. 

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It just got easier to tackle criminal landlords in London

Posted on Latest news by Tilly Smith · November 18, 2020 10:00 AM · 1 reaction
  1. It is estimated that one in seven homes in England is criminally unsafe - but the good news is it just got easier for tenants in London to do something about this. Sadiq Khan has today brought in a tool for renters to check if their home needs a licence.

Local councils are responsible for identifying and putting a stop to criminal landlords. In some cases, tenants can even claim rent back from a landlord who breaks the law.

But councils are not doing much to help renters identify illegal practice and exercise their rights which means that many landlords are getting away with criminal behaviour.

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How the next mayor can crack down on London's criminal landlords

Posted on Latest news by Dan Wilson Craw · March 06, 2020 12:12 PM

With candidates for London Mayor starting to set out their pledges, we reveal that half of London’s boroughs did not fine any landlords for letting out unsafe homes in the past year.

Join our campaign to demand the candidates fix the city's renting crisis.

The winner of the mayoral election could step up the fight against criminal landlords overnight by letting tenants check online if their home needs and has a licence. An estimated 130,000 private rented homes in London do not have the correct licence, making 1 in 8 private renters eligible for a refund of rent. Those are good odds.

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A win on deposits and one step closer to regulating landlords

Posted on Latest news by Dan Wilson Craw · June 27, 2019 12:10 PM

The letting fees ban is great and all, but now fees are out of the way, you still have to scrape together a large deposit before you can move home. 

Well, we thought about that - last year we proposed a system where you could transfer part of your deposit to your next tenancy, once you'd done responsible things like pay your final month's rent. We called this deposit passporting.

We couldn't get it into the Tenant Fees Act (which came into force this month), but the government has been looking at it and today announced its support for deposit passporting!

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Getting the best from Newham's renewed landlord licensing scheme

Posted on Latest news by Seb Klier · December 01, 2017 3:57 PM

This week those campaigning for a better private rented sector received an early Christmas present with the announcement that the Communities Secretary had approved the majority of Newham's proposal for a renewed borough-wide landlord licensing scheme.

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Landlord licensing works - yet the government is delaying renewal of the most successful scheme

Posted on Latest news by Seb Klier · October 19, 2017 1:01 PM

Since the east London borough of Newham introduced mandatory borough-wide licensing of all private landlords in 2013, improvements in the sector have been indisputable. Criminal landlords are being driven out of the borough, standards and safety in the sector have improved and enforcement has dramatically increased.

Yet with the scheme due to expire on 31 December 2017, government is now more than four weeks overdue in making a decision on approval of a new, five-year scheme, to start in the new year.

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Landlord tax evasion - what do we know?

Posted on Latest news by Dan Wilson Craw · September 13, 2017 2:45 PM

A few weeks ago, the London Borough of Newham revealed that 13,000 local landlords had failed to declare their rental income, prompting estimates that £200m of tax was being evaded in London alone.

Today, Parliament has published an answer from the Treasury Minister Mel Stride to Frank Field, who asked what assessment the government had made of this. The Minister directed him (and us) to this information on tax gaps (pp54-5).

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London's turning - Towards a sustainable private rented sector under the new Mayor

Posted on Latest news by Seb Klier · September 26, 2016 12:05 PM

Today Generation Rent publishes 'London's Turning: Towards a sustainable private rented sector under the new Mayor', our call on Sadiq Khan to act rapidly and boldly in his response to the capital's housing crisis.

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Enjoy the summer - but come back ready to end the London housing crisis

Posted on Latest news by Seb Klier · July 21, 2016 3:30 PM

As is so often the case in the week before politicians break for the summer, we’ve had a raft of announcements, predictions and indicators in the last week – including a number of focused reports today from English Housing Survey data.

Coupled with announcements made at yesterday’s Mayoral Question Time (the last until September), private renters in London have a diagnosis and some solutions to ponder over the summer.

But equally, it is hoped that these reports will have brought added impetus to plans being written by the housing team at City Hall, ready to hit the ground running after the summer. 

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