The Government has finally announced the details of the Renters Reform Bill, which should give more rights to anyone whose home is rented from a private landlord. These reforms are long overdue. Because those of us who rent privately often get the roughest of all the housing deals available.
While council housing has become scarce due to ever more aggressive right to buy schemes from government, public housing remains far more affordable than private rents – with some areas seeing private rents four to six times greater than public sector properties.
If you can get on the list for public sector housing, you can be waiting years to get to the front of the queue. And if you knock back a potential home for whatever reason, it’s like a real life game of Snakes and (property) Ladders – down you slide back to square one.
