As the UK’s housing crisis continues to present challenges for aspiring homeowners and renters alike, the private rented sector (PRS) is swelling to house people priced out of the property market, as well as those who historically would have been accommodated in social housing. Statistics show that the PRS grew from 2.8m households in 2007 to 4.5m in 2017 – an increase of 63%.
At the same time, alarming stories of “rogue landlords” who allow tenants to live in squalor abound. The government has established a database to keep track of landlords who fail to provide habitable properties or are convicted of serious offences, and steps are being taken to highlight poor conditions and the lack of affordable housing, and to improve the law to root out those who take advantage of the growing number of people depending on the PRS.
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