Rogue private landlords given £2.5billion a year of public money, new analysis reveals

‘Billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money is being given to rogue landlords who are renting out homes that don’t meet basic health and safety standards, new analysis of Government data has revealed.
Over the next five years, they will receive more than £12bn in housing benefits – enough money to have helped build more than half a million new homes.
Some £2.5bn currently goes every year to landlords who are renting out properties in a “non-decent” condition: the Government’s benchmark for what constitutes an unacceptable quality of accommodation.
To be classed as non-decent, a home must have inadequate heating, outdated sanitation, be in a state of serious disrepair or be unsafe, for example due to a dangerous boiler, vermin infestation or faulty wiring.
The Independent revealed last month that almost a third of private rented homes in England, totalling 1.4 million properties, are currently substandard, while 17 per cent contain the most dangerous type of safety hazard.’
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