A spokesperson for the ARLA (Associate of Residential Letting Agents) this week accused the housing minister of lacking empathy with those people living in the private rental sector. Ian Potter did not mince his words when referring to the Housing Minister’s recent statement in a debate.
“In a recent debate the Housing Minister displayed a lack of empathy with those living in the PRS when he argued that it consists of three million households, when it in fact consists of eight million people. Perhaps we should question why he seems to have depersonalised the PRS, as the Government continues to evade implementing measures to help the sector.”
It is a fairly common theme right now, the idea that the Government is not doing enough to help the rental sector. Even the most basic of measures to improve things seem to go ignored as the Government continues to focus elsewhere.
Many experts agree that if unemployment continues to rise then we could soon be facing a crisis where people are unable to pay their rent, and the knock on effect of that will be more landlords failing to honor their mortgage commitments.
You have only to look at the Government’s failure to include rental properties in the boiler scrapage scheme to begin questioning their commitment to supporting the rental sector.
