It has been confirmed that the Deregulation Bill, under which the government is introducing what is effectively a ban on so-called revenge evictions, will now be debated in full by the Lords on March 4 before returning to the Commons for its final reading.
It is very likely that it will be passed by MPs and receive Royal Assent, turning it into law, on March 30.
Amendments passed last week by the Lords mean that, if the bill becomes law, when a complaint alleging a revenge eviction is received relating to a private rented property, the local authority for the area will contact the landlord to resolve the problem.
It will serve an improvement notice if the landlord is clearly at fault and there is a serious issue with the property.
Agents and landlords will then be prohibted from serving a section 21 eviction notice for six months following the issuing of a local authority improvement notice, and under those circumstances tenants may have the right of appeal against eviction.
The arguments against these measures have been well rehearsed by the agency industry, to no avail.
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Exactly Arnie.
MPs think that they will get votes from this, but they will simply deter PRS landlords from further investment. When PRS landlords are vilified en masse by MPs, Shelter etc who could blame them when they sell up.
I read a post from a tenant who had been a good tenant for 14 years but now has to leave because their landlord is selling their portfolio. They complained that they were losing their home because their landlord wanted their property back to sell. They missed the point - the house belongs to the landlord, not the tenant. If they want security then they need to take out a mortgage.
What next Debbie, stopping landlords giving notice because they want their property back PRS landlords are running a business and take business decisions.
I have only given one tenant notice in the last ten years and that after multiple complaints from other residents and the company secretary of the other flats in the block. No doubt he felt I was a bad landlord too.
Why would good landlords want to protect bad landlords who are giving the sector a bad name Also, when you can legally be evicted for exercising your rights to a safe home, how can good landlords think this is acceptable It is difficult to guage numbers of people affected because tenants often keep quite because they are afraid to lose their home.
Mps are trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist in the vague hope that this will make private tenants vote for them.