Landlords are being punished through no fault of their own | CapX

Reem Ibrahim writes for CapX

Our inability to build is perhaps the most pressing issue facing Britain today. It affects everything: stifling growth, repelling investment and worsening depopulation. It’s also toxified our politics, creating perverse political incentives that have given Nimbys a significant foothold over approvals. Matters have gotten so bad that both main parties have been dragged kicking and screaming into acknowledging that we need to build more and at a much faster rate.

So with this in mind, you’d think that the last thing the Government wants to do is make it more difficult to rent. Apparently not.

Until 2017, the term ‘no fault evictions’ had simply been used to distinguish between a Section 8 notice, in which a tenant is evicted because they’ve broken the terms of their tenancy agreement, and a Section 21 notice (the Section in question), when someone is evicted because their tenancy has expired. This basic tenet of property rights was, until recently, uncontroversial: a landlord should be entitled to reclaim their property after an agreed period, because it is their property.

Read the full article in CapX here