Regulation of the lettings sector is proposed in a new Private Members’ Bill that was presented in Parliament last week. Meanwhile, yesterday in the Lords, peers voted against the Government to introduce regulation.
Jeremy Corbyn, Labour MP for Islington North in London, told the Commons he wants to tackle lettings agents and ‘the sheer nastiness’ of some private landlords.
He is demanding the regulation of letting agents, who he says charge high fees, while the Bill also proposes five-year tenancies.
Corbyn told MPs: “It is high time that Parliament looked at the situation facing people in the private rented sector and introduced thorough and comprehensive regulation.
“We need to provide security, decency and reliable landlords for those people who are unable to buy and unable to access local authority or housing association accommodation.”
The Bill is due to have its second reading at the end of April.
More on the House of Lords debate in LAT next week.
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Isn't it strange that none of the Labour mp's that are banging on about it now weren't so keen to do anything about it when Labour were in power for 13 years
Jeremy Corbyn, Labour MP for Islington North in London, told the Commons he wants to tackle lettings agents and ‘the sheer nastiness’ of some private landlords.
This sounds like a dangerous place to start any debate about regulating the private sector.
The banking crisis should have shown the complete failure of regulation i.e. the bank regulators only regulated what they could understand.
Somehow history has been rewritten and it has been turned round as an argument for more regulation.