The licensing of rented properties makes it much easier for tenants to enforce their rights. It also helps to tackle criminal landlords.
When a caseworker at Safer Renting, a charity service that helps tenants in crisis, learns that their client lives in a home that should have been licensed, a cheer goes around the team. It makes all the difference when protecting tenants from illegal eviction, poor conditions and more.
But if licensing is such a force for good, why did Generation Rent’s research find that only 9% of English councils use the most powerful kind, called selective licensing?
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