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Originally Posted by joeysteele

No, I think what is needed is whole overhaul 'now' at this present time,of the rented housing sector, council and private for these more difficult times,even 1996 is nearly 2 decades ago.

Landlords have got greedier and as the article above appears to demonstrate have found ways around any protection of tenancies.

People are struggling to find and get rented accommodation that is affordable and secure for them, this is 2012, not the 80s,the 90s and certainly not 1915.
People should have a right to a home,their tenancy of it should be as secure as ti can be as it is in the older tenancies of council housing.
Firm and non-negotiable terms of notice needs to be part of any tenancy agreement and 2 weeks is a ridiculous period,also the right to appeal to a court should always be part of any tenacy agreemetn too, whether council or private tenancies.

So let's see what this new venture brings but it seems to be going to be another Conservative/Lib Dem to and fro situation on the issue, more needs to be done right now and should have been done a few years ago too.

You're missing the point ..... Accomodation and Rents have been major issues since time immemorial and part of the UK legislative system since 1915. There will NEVER be a solution that suits all parties, political, legal or civil, since circumstances dictate landlords behaviour (the circumstances in this case being the LOG) - there will only ever be stop-gaps between crises and the current Tory Government, least of all, will be considering spending money on legislation that inhibits landlords from making massive amounts of money or provides affordable housing for the working classes .....

Landlords have NOT got greedier ..... they have always been like that, e.g. :

http://notting-hill.london.myvillage.../peter-rachman

Peter Rachman became known as Britain’s most notorious landlord. He acquired many slum properties in the north London suburbs, particularly around the Notting Hill area, which in the 50s and 60s did not have the hip and trendy image portrayed today. His policy was to acquire tenanted buildings. He used violence to evict sitting tenants so he could fill squalid properties with immigrant families from the West Indies who, without anywhere else to go, were crammed into tiny flats at extortionate rents because of the colour bar, which prevented them from renting anywhere else.

Rachman’s name is so synonymous with bad housing that is included in English dictionaries: Rachmanism: ’Landlords buying up slums to fill with immigrants at extortionate rents; named after Peter Rachman, a notorious racketeering landlord in Notting Hill in the 1950s and 1960s’.