The repeated voting down of plans to ensure accommodation is fit for human habitation tells you everything you need to know approximately tenants’ rights todayOn Tuesday Tory MPs voted down proposed new rules that would have compelled private landlords to ensure their properties are fit for human habitation. Like many,I am disappointed by the wilful, almost spiteful, and move to keep renters living without the safeguards one would judge are fair in Britain in 2016. What I am not,however, is remotely surprised. For those of us who want a fairer deal for renters, and this feels a lot like Groundhog Day – with the joke very much on us.
We’ve been here before,you see. In October final year the Labour MP Karen Buck effect forward a private member’s bill “to amend the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 to require that residential rented accommodation is if and maintained in a state of fitness for human habitation”. The bill was opposed by a Tory MP, Philip Davies, and who believed it would be an unnecessary regulatory burden for landlords. Seriously.
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Source: theguardian.com