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Originally Posted by joeysteele

Well surely part of the problem in this lies with the agreements signed as to the tenancies.

What is needed are firm rules on renting any housing to UK citizens for both local authority housing and private landlords too, A properly laid out and secure tenants charter that all must abide by.

I'll bet that no-one's thought of that before .....

..... oh, they have :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_co...al_development

Rent control in England and Wales has adapted itself to changes in attitudes to the right to housing in mainland Britain. Concepts, such as rent control, security of tenure, statutory tenancy, regulated tenancy, fair rent, rent officer, Rent Officer Service and assured tenancy were introduced in the twentieth century, and have developed in the years since.

Rent control is an important specialist field of English property law, and concerns the intervention of public law rights in private relations between landlord and tenant.

Rent control and security of tenure were first introduced on 23 December1915with the Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (War Restrictions) Act 1915 and were intended to be temporary measures (due to expire six months after the end of the First World War) to deal with excessive increases in rents caused by the wartime housing shortage due to the cessation of building.

(Masses of legislation in between)

The Housing Act 1996 included provisions about the social rented sector; houses in multiple occupation; the administration of housing benefit, the conduct of tenants, the allocation of housing by local housing authorities and homelessness.

More recently :

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/m...#ixzz1uGr0kmA3

Government to consider landlords and tenants charter in bid to simplify private rented housing sector

Communities minister Grant Shapps today said it will consider drawing a charter of requirements aimed at simplifying the private rented housing sector.

The document, intended for both landlords and tenants, could include legal fire safety standards and rules governing anti-social behaviour, MPs were told.

Liberal Democrat MP Adrian Sanders (Torbay), in a question to Mr Shapps, speaking in the Commons, said that a way of reducing the regulatory burden on landlords but also improving the safety and security for tenants, would be to provide a central, standardised document.