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Funding to tackle criminal landlords is a step in the right direction

New funding announced by the Government to tackle criminal landlords is welcome but is nowhere near enough says the Residential Landlords Association (RLA).

Ministers have announced that local authorities will be able to access almost £4m in new funding, as part of what it describes as a “crackdown on criminal landlords” for 2019/20. This comes after £2m was made available for similar efforts in 2018/19.

Whilst the RLA welcomes the Government’s focus on rooting out criminal landlords, it warns that the amount simply is not enough to properly find and root out the crooks. The funding comes on the day that the RLA has shown that whilst the number of regulations imposing new obligations on landlords has increased by a third since 2010, councils are failing to properly use them.

David Smith, policy director at the RLA, said: “We welcome the Government’s focus on rooting out criminal landlords. For too long the debate has been driven by ideological calls for more regulation of the sector. What is needed is better enforcement of the powers already available to root out the minority who bring the sector into disrepute.”

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