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Everyone should have a home

Everyone deserves a home, yet the reality of private renting often reveals stark contrasts between ideals and reality. This exploration by Rosemary Brotchie discusses the complexities surrounding homelessness and the private rental sector, highlighting issues faced by tenants, landlords, and policymakers. It emphasizes the critical need for better regulations, tenant protections, and standards to ensure that private renting serves as a viable alternative to ownership and a safeguard against homelessness. We must act now to foster a healthier rental market for all.

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Everyone should have a home

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  1. Everyone should have a home Where are we and what could the future hold?Rosemary Brotchie

  2. The landlord caricature Ideally, the worst type of slum landlord is a fat wicked man, preferably a bishop, who is drawing an immense income from extortionate rent…. .

  3. ….Actually, it is a poor old woman who has invested her life’s savings in three slum houses, inhabits one of them, and tries to live on the rent of the other two – never, in consequence, having any money for repairs. .

  4. About Shelter • Private renting and Homelessness. • Where are we now? • Where do we go from here? .

  5. Shelter Most of our work is in direct services: housing aid, legal representation, support to families and web-based help. We also have a policy and campaigning team and a growing training function Our services deal with prevention of homelessness, with sustaining tenancies and tackling anti-social behaviour. .

  6. What is private renting for? • An alternative to owner occupation • A vital part of economic and geographical mobility • A last resort for those with no other option? • Homes for homeless people? .

  7. Homelessness and Private Renting • Prevention of homelessness • Temporary accommodation • Interim accommodation • Permanent accommodation? .

  8. How do we ensure higher standards? Market incentives or Regulatory intervention? .

  9. Policy direction so far… • Repair and the Private Rented Housing Panel • Evictions • Consumer information • Accreditation and landlord registration • Housing benefit .

  10. What is still to do: • Enact deposit protection • Tenancy regime change .

  11. Summing up • The PRS has a vital role in both preventing and responding to homelessness. • Recent developments in PRS – both market and public-policy – can be seen as ways of enhancing that role. • Strengthening the hand of consumers – tenants – is integral to building on the reversal of fortunes in PRS. .

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