Government accused of turning renters reform legislation into a landlords' charter
Letting Agent boards on display along the seafront in Hastings, East Sussex, March 13, 2008
THE government was accused today of turning legislation to outlaw the eviction of tenants for no reason into a “landlord’s charter.”
Housing campaigners said the Renters (Reform) Bill, originally presented as a protection against so-called “no-fault” evictions, is being watered down to apply only to new tenancies.
This will leave 90 per cent of England’s 12 million existing tenants vulnerable to being thrown out of their homes.
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