-By Guest Columnist Mary Latham-
Landlords may be invisible but their properties are not and neither are their tenants, especially if they are among the increasing number who rely on benefits to pay their rent.
Following a meeting of the Homestamp consortium this week, I was standing on a busy street outside of a small shop talking to one of my colleagues who is an officer with one of my local authorities. Our conversation was about how we could get more landlords to work with the authority to provide homes and reduce the number of people on their homeless lists. We were soon joined by the owner of the shop who is a landlord and works with this authority to provide decent homes, so we asked him why he thought landlords were not coming forward. Continue reading Holding your umbrella upside down will not keep off the reign of the taxman →