Labour’s radical proposals for the private rental sector – including reducing landlords’ powers to demand arrears – have produced a dramatic response from the National Residential Landlords Association.

Yesterday Labour’s shadow housing secretary Lisa Nandy told her party’s conference that if her party won power it would end Section 21 evictions; reduce eviction powers for landlords whose tenants are in arrears; introduce four month notice periods; introduce ‘portable’ deposits making it easier for tenants to switch properties; allowing tenants to have pets; permitting renters to make ”reasonable alterations to a property”; creating a national register of landlords; and initiating a legally-binding decent homes standard in the private rental sector.

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