Labour’s Angela Rayner plans huge crackdown and sends warning to rogue landlords _ Hieuuk
She has pledged to end the ‘scandal’ of poor housing.
Angela Rayner (Image: Getty)
A crackdown on cowboy landlords will be launched by Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner as she pledges to end the “scandal” of poor housing.
Councils and housing associations as well as private landlords will be targeted under measures to be announced at Labour’s conference in Liverpool.
Ms Rayner said: “Whilst many housing associations and councils do their best to support tenants, too many have been let down for too long stuck in substandard and even dangerous homes and we’ve seen the devastating consequences. The work of change has begun.
“For Labour this is not just about building houses at any cost but making houses people can call home. This means ending the scandalous situation where standards for existing and future tenants don’t currently even meet the minimum of safety and decency everyone should expect.”
Labour MP Jas Athwal, who owns 15 properties, has admitted being “shocked and sickened” by the state of flats he rents out to tenants after a BBC investigation found black mould and ant infestations in some properties.
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A package announced by Ms Rayner today includes consulting on a new Decent Homes Standard, setting out the minimum standard rented properties should meet, and bringing forward legislation known as Awaab’s Law this autumn, so hazards such as damp and mould are identified and dealt with.
Awaab Ishak died aged two in 2020 after being exposed to mould at his housing association home in Rochdale.
The Government is also to give 2.5 million housing associations tenants the right to access more information about their landlords, helping them to hold the organisations to account, and introduce new conduct standards to ensure staff have the right skills and experience to support tenants when things go wrong.
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Ms Rayner will also highlight plans to build 1.5 million homes through a National Planning Policy Framework to be introduced this autumn.
She said: “We’ve inherited a Tory housing crisis. This Labour Government is taking a wave of bold action to not only build the housing our country needs and boost social and affordable housing, but to ensure all homes are decent, safe, and warm.”
