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     Ross Miller wrote:
    There needs to be decent provision in the rental market with proper rent controls, maintenance standards etc. - just like many local authorities provided until Bob's party flogged them off and didn't allow local authorities to re-invest in more properties... Ah but that is the past and we should look forward.

    Perhaps the re-introduction of rent control based on a sensible yield figure (4% ish), a landlords registration scheme tied to permits to rent, proper application of maintenance standards to protect tenants and making it easier and quicker for landlords to evict where there is a clear breach of tenancy (e.g. rent arrears, damage to property, criminal conviction.


    If govt interferes problems arise, Mrs Thatcher claimed to be a free marketeer but she sold off council stock at hugely discounted prices which distorted the market. Labour continued it so both sides are guilty. Housing benefit is another example of govt stupidity, taxpayers fund private landlords and inflate rental costs.

    Printing money, which the govt tried to con us into by calling it quantitative easing is another example of stupidity. Have a look at Iceland, they jailed bankers, the Labour Party knighted them.

    With the exception of law and order govt needs to get out of the way and allow the market to find its natural value.

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