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I begged to leave that the landlord and tenant reform bill be changed to | :00:14. | :00:21. | |
make provision for the regulation of landlords in private rented | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
accommodation to extend tenants' writes particular the in the sale of | :00:24. | :00:34. | |
occupied rented property, to prevent fees to allow private landlords in | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
Greater London and for connected purposes. Madam deputies eager, it | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
is no exaggeration to see that we have a national emergency and | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
housing. It is unacceptable that in 2016 millions of people still stop | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
daily from her housing and live in fear and desperation without a | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
secure, affordable place to call home. This fear is tearing | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
communities apart and risks further devising our country between a very | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
well-off minority and the rest of us. We have soaring house prices | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
were the average cost of a two-bedroom house in London is now | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
out of reach of more than 80% of people. A rental sector in which to | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
many people on low and middle incomes are spending around two | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
fifths of their salaries and housing, something confirmed by the | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
Evening Standard in a report yesterday and often suffer at the | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
hands of rogue landlords. Over the last decade, London's | :01:28. | :01:42. | |
rental sector has doubled in size. There are over 1 million private | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
sector rented properties. For many people, living in the private rented | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
sector works well with short-term tenancy agreements offering them | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
flexibility to move home quickly for new jobs or career opportunities and | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
many private landlords are responsible, carrying out repairs in | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
a timely manner and returning deposits promptly but for many | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
others the sector has become a last resort rather than a housing | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
destination of choice. There have been huge demographic changes in the | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
sector in recent years with an increasing number of families and | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
low income households living in the sector but conditions remained poor | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
with one third of homes not meeting government standards and over 60% of | :02:32. | :02:42. | |
people renting experiencing poor living quality or hazards according | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
to Shelter. Last week I met a woman who, soon after she started | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
describing the conditions in her property, broke down in tears. She | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
and her son could no longer face waking up to live or dead rodents. | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
The landlord was trying to help but the quality of housing stock makes | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
it ever got for them to stop rodents getting into the property. Another | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
woman came to see me with her mother and the landlord was refusing to | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
sort out their problems while putting pressure on them to leave | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
their flat. I'm sure every member of Parliament will be familiar with | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
these cases. I support the measures put forward to overhaul the private | :03:34. | :03:41. | |
rented sector. Whilst the exact number of rogue landlords operating | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
in the sector remains unknown, there is a growing sense that the problem | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
is worse is demand for housing and rental profits increases. As a | :03:52. | :04:04. | |
survey of local authority enforcement in the private rental | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
sector carried out in March by my Lib Dem colleagues shows, the | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
enforcement of standards in the private rental sector by local | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
authorities is highly variable. With recent budget cuts diminishing | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
resources to councils to tackle landlords with poor living | :04:26. | :04:27. | |
conditions, the patchwork of enforcement has left thousands of | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
people at the mercy of rogue landlords. Much of this lies with | :04:34. | :04:42. | |
the enforcement. Tougher enforcement is welcome. Unfortunately, | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
enforcement and inspection is weak. A third of councils in London, Ken | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
Burrows, failed to prosecute a single landlord for on site | :04:54. | :05:04. | |
accommodation in 2014/ 15. There is a significant variation in the level | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
of enforcement activity, with some councils inspecting one in 14 | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
private rented properties for hazards and others around one in | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
500. The private rented sector may have met the needs of tenants in | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
years gone by that the profile of renters and length of tenancy has | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
changed dramatically recently. If some landlords are to lose their | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
wild West reputation, it is clear proper enforcement is required. This | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
is a set out in the plans I will refer to which would reform the | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
private rented sector. My goal would seek to implement these. All | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
landlords in London should be registered, making it easier to | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
identify the scale and trends in the private rented sector and to ensure | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
landlords can be traced easily. Also to crackdown on rogue landlords with | :05:58. | :06:05. | |
a licensing scheme, the Government should introduce a licensing scheme | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
with the aim of professionalising the sector and removing rogue | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
landlords from the market. This proposal will not be welcomed by all | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
landlords but some accept a limited role for licensing in some areas of | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
London and some circumstances. Scrap unfair agencies for renters. Moving | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
from one rented home to another can be very expensive with high letting | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
fees and deposit requirements. I am told agents try to poach landlords | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
from each other to secure the fees which are triggered on a change of | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
tenancy, and they dangle the prospect of higher rents in front of | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
the would-be landlord. In Sutton, a quick check suggests fees of around | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
400 - 500 pounds when signing up a new tenant and when that is added to | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
the six-week deposit which would currently be approximately ?1500 for | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
a two-bedroom flat, that is a total of ?200 up front a tenant would need | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
to find. To give renters extra right-wing landlords sell up and | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
requirement for tenants to be given first refusal to buy the home they | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
are renting should the landlord decides to sell during a tenancy. | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
Finally, give councils that power to manage private rentals, allowing | :07:31. | :07:38. | |
councils to develop, on and manage rented homes outside of the housing | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
revenue accounts to improve the quality of homes in the sector with | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
the freedom to offer a long-term tenancies and also call on the | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
Government to work with private landlords, mortgage companies and | :07:49. | :07:57. | |
such to offer longer tenancies because quite often it is the | :07:58. | :07:59. | |
mortgage holders standing in the way. I think this would make a real | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
difference. Madam Deputy is bigger, neither I nor Caroline Pidgeon claim | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
these are a silver bullet to solve the problems but the fundamental | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
problem is a lack of supply of affordable homes, which is now | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
closer to a solution given that fewer than 500 affordable homes were | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
built in London last year, the lowest figure since the election of | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
the Mayor of London in 2008 but we believe these proposals will improve | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
the lot of private renters, some of whom suffer unsafe properties with | :08:35. | :08:42. | |
the threat of retaliation every time they ask for a repairer. This must | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
stop. I urge this House to support this bill. The question is that the | :08:48. | :09:00. | |
right now a member have leave to bring in the deal. ? | :09:01. | :09:38. | |
Landlord and tenant reform Bill. Second reading what they? Friday the | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
13th of May. Friday the 13th of May. The phrases originally said to refer | :09:45. | :10:11. | |
to a small private room and now it is simply two words to describe the | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
people at the very top | :10:16. | :10:16. |