It is odd that we would expect landlords such as Fergus Wilson (Private renting: Tycoon evicts all tenants, including an entire street, 30 January) to be anything more than capitalist rentiers. What duty of care does he have other than ensuring his houses are safe and sound, that he isn’t prejudiced when selecting tenants and that he abides by the law? And why shouldn’t he sell them? Surely that is the point of private housing – that the owners can sell up whenever they please.
The Tories fooled the public into believing the private sector could run better services and started the tragic sale of social housing, but we must never rely on private landlords to provide anything other than stopgap housing (although there will be many decent ones out there).
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