皇冠体育app

More than 100 councils across England have been awarded a share of over 拢4 million to crack down on criminal landlords and letting agents, Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick MP has announced today (3 January 2020).聽

皇冠体育app majority of landlords provide decent homes for their tenants, but a small minority persist in breaking the law, making tenants鈥� lives a misery by offering inadequate or unsafe housing.聽

皇冠体育app new funding will be used by councils to take enforcement action against these landlords, and advise tenants of their housing rights.

This action will continue the government鈥檚 ongoing work to make the private rented sector fairer and stamp out criminal practices for good.聽

Among the councils to benefit from the funding are:聽

• 21 councils across Yorkshire and Humberside 鈥� to train over 100 enforcement officers across the region to ensure standards are being met by landlords
• Northampton 鈥� to create a 鈥楽pecial Operations Unit鈥� to enforce against the very worst landlords responsible for over 100 homes in the town
• Thurrock 鈥� to work with the care service to ensure the most vulnerable young tenants are in decent, well-maintained homes
• Greenwich 鈥� to trial new technology to identify particularly cold homes to ensure renters are warm over the winter period

Housing Secretary Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP said:

This government will deliver a better deal for renters. It鈥檚 completely unacceptable that a minority of unscrupulous landlords continue to break the law and provide homes which fall short of the standards we rightly expect - making lives difficult for hard-working tenants who just want to get on with their lives.

Everyone deserves to live in a home that is safe and secure and the funding announced today will strengthen councils鈥� powers to crack down on poor landlords and drive up standards in the private rented sector for renters across the country.

Councils already have strong聽powers to force landlords to make necessary improvements to a property through use of a range of measures, including civil penalties and banning orders for the worst offenders.聽

皇冠体育app grants will support a range of projects to enable councils to make the best use of these powers. This will include trialling innovative ideas, sharing best practice and targeted enforcement where we know landlords shirk their responsibilities.聽

Today鈥檚 announcement聽demonstrates government鈥檚 commitment to helping good landlords to thrive, and hard-working tenants across the country get the homes they deserve 鈥� creating a housing market that works for everyone.聽

Further information

This government has committed to delivering a fairer deal for renters and empower them whilst also giving greater peace of mind.

We will end no fault evictions, so that landlords can鈥檛 remove tenants without good reason, and introduce Lifetime Rental Deposits so renters don鈥檛 have to save up for a new deposit while their money is tied up in an old one.

皇冠体育appre are more than 4.5 million households in the private rented sector in England, with recent statistics showing that 82% of private renters are satisfied with their accommodation.

皇冠体育app fund will help councils take on the most common challenges that stand in the way of tackling poor standards in the private rented sector, including:

• encouraging positive landlord/tenant/local authority relationships, particularly with vulnerable groups such as care leavers
• the need for better information 鈥� on housing stock, and on landlords and agents operating in their areas
• data sharing between authorities and agencies 鈥� identifying and bringing together different data sets to enable better enforcement targeting which protects the most vulnerable tenants
• internal 鈥榳ays of working鈥� 鈥� improving housing-specific legal expertise, in-house communication between teams, and tools and strategies to effectively implement policy
• innovative software 鈥� for enforcement officers to record their findings, gather evidence and streamline the enforcement process

A summary of funding for PRS Innovation and Enforcement Grant projects can be viewed here: