In the face of a housing crisis getting worse by the day, this is a feeble announcement – John Healey

John Healey MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary
of State for Housing,
responding to a government call for evidence on whether a new system of
regulation for letting and management agents is needed, said:

“In
the face of a housing crisis getting worse by the day, this is a feeble
announcement. This isn’t even a commitment to act, it’s a commitment to ask
some questions. After seven years of failure on housing, Ministers need to do
much better than this.

“Rather
than just asking whether renters and leaseholders need better protections,
Ministers should act on Labour’s proposals to end the building of new leasehold
homes, cap rises in ground rents, and back our plan for new consumer
protections for private tenants including a control on rent rises, a ban on
letting fees and new minimum standards.”