Tag Archives: landlords

What’s to stop landlords passing the cost of immigration checks on to already squeezed tenants?

For the sake of appeasing a handful of Tory backbenchers and shoring up the UKIP vote, the government may have just heaped another burden on already hard-pressed tenants.

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Private rents in London outstrip inflation

Private rents in London are outstripping inflation, new figures reveal.

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The inequality at the heart of the housing crisis

A new study by the LSE highlights systemic inequality in the housing crisis.

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Landlords are the real winners from Huhne’s ‘Green Deal’ speech

Whilst others are busy comparing competing views on the coalition’s environmental record after Chris Huhne’s speech on the Green Deal at the LSE on Tuesday, all the papers – The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian – seemed to miss a significant aspect of the story behind the climate change and energy secretary’s speech.

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