If you were one of the 13 million people in the five million households paying 40 per cent of monthly income to private landlords who could evict your family at short notice, without even having to give a reason, you may well have felt insecure. And that was before the pandemic.
Insecurity of tenure has been baked into the UK’s private rental market since the 1988 Housing Act granted landlords automatic rights of possession without grounds. The now notorious section 21 has been one of the major causes of homelessness in the UK for decades.
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