Renters’ Rights Bill is doomed to fail without enforcement – NRLA

National Residential Tenants Association*

What's he saying that for.
They will want to get funding from landlords to pay for the enforcement.

Reply to the comment left by Downsize Government at 12/02/2025 - 12:23
Well said! I do wonder if Ben is actually on our side. Instead of being nicey nicey, why not take a more hardline approach along the lines of Shelter etc.? Then there’ll be more chance of an acceptable middle ground?

Reply to the comment left by Neil P at 12/02/2025 - 13:16
I thought everyone knows by now that he is on the side of the tenants.

He never should have got the job to start with IMO.

I know some might think this is not a PC thing to say, but to me he does not look like someone to be taken seriously.

The NRLA think they know best when it comes to fighting for change and look where that has got us!

If it's not working - Change your approach.

In a properly functioning rental market, the least desirable properties would remain empty.

It is the government’s own failings that has led to a population crisis which means even the most dreadful properties can attract tenants. Tenants can’t move out because there’s nowhere to move to.

Fix the population crisis and the tenant’s lot would improve.

You could not make it up.
The leader of the organisation that is supposed to be representing us . Is calling for more enforcement . The huge burden on the Council ?
What about the Huge Burden on Private Landlords.

We should all stop shooting ourselves in the Foot.
Do you see the Farmers acting like this.

He should be happy the RRB will fail as it deserves to fail as it is not balanced towards LLs but batters us.

Clearly those of the forum here know there is a car crash coming fast with Labour on PRS. If this is one of the car crashes, then lack of GDP growth is another.

Beadle needs to be talking up growth agenda for PRS. i.e Less regulation means higher growth for PRS and ALL stakeholder benefit.

Council already have laws to chase dodgy LLs not chase LLs for selective licence money making schemes that they claim are to 'help level the playing field for responsible LLs' (classic line used in all government PRS documents to justify bringing in red tape). We don't need it leveling as demand outstrips supply.

Perhaps there should be a petition to get a new leader for the NRLA.

Beadle is a placeman who is deliberately or unwittingly doing a job.
The effect of his actions and those of the government are to eliminate small landlords and then replace them with large corporate landlords.
We see the new Lloyds Bank subsidiary which is going to have 50,000 houses in its portfolio by April,then we will see Legal and General and other major players taking over.
The government thinks that by making this move these big players will give them money to create " growth".
This of course won't happen and because of the shortage of 250,000 construction workers and shortages of aggregate,bricks,cement ,sharp sand ,roof trusses,breeze blocks,plastic pipes the 17 million houses ( based on an extrapolation of predict and provide),which we are short and still need will not be built.
We will as a country see:
a) The elimination of small buy to let landlords
b) Massive increases in homelessness and poverty for those at the bottom of the food chain
c) More local authority bankruptcies
d) Rising local authority waiting lists unless hostels are built and the 47 million excess population over and above the UK's optimum population of 35 million people is dramatically reduced.
Beadle will undoubtedly move on to bigger and better things as is the case with others in jobs where they have failed ( rewards for failure).