Member

We are also told that renters’ rights and tribunals will protect tenants. To a degree, there is real positive stuff there, but tribunals judge market rents, not affordability. A market rent is not the same as an affordable rent. We are also told that rising local housing allowance benefits only landlords. I struggle with that one. It sounds more like a slogan than a policy argument. Are the Government actually saying that landlords should not receive legitimate rent for accommodation that they are providing? But homelessness benefits no one, except those who are actually charging the state—and I include the Home Office here—eye-watering sums for emergency accommodation. We have even had instances of the Home Office competing with councils to obtain temporary accommodation and councils bidding against each other.