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Why do landlords either avoid or target the lower end of the lettings market?

A report by Julie Rugg & Alison Wallace was recently published regarding the property supply to the lower end of the English Private Rented Sector.

This considers tenants who are in receipt of some form of benefit, from either: Universal Credits (UC), Local Housing Allowance (LHA) and Discretionary Housing Payments (DHP). The report outlines the various difficulties that landlords have in dealing with this area of the market and reflects on why this area’s supply of properties has decreased in recent years.

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