Renting

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Birmingham’s Somali community has grown dramatically during the past five years. But many end up living in squalid private rented housing at the bottom end of the market, reports Kevin Gulliver

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Why should private tenants with no security of tenure regard where they live as ‘their’ community? asks Jacky Peacock

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More retired homeowners are choosing to sell up, invest the capital and rent instead, says Peter Girling

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Corporate landlords can provide good quality homes to people living in the lower end of the private rental scale, says Trevor Moross

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Children are the biggest losers when secure tenancies are in such short supply, says Jacky Peacock

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Environmental health officers would be out of work if landlords stopped putting lives at risk. But Rebecca Smith has little fear of that happening soon

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A new protocol will help brief the police on how to deal with landlord and tenant disputes, says Debbie Crew

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Police trying to resolve landlord tenant disputes often don’t know housing law, warns Bill Page

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It’s only a matter of time till homeless people are fitted with a bar code, says Jacky Peacock

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Social landlords can’t be trusted to use eviction for rent arrears only as a last resort. So should they be allowed to kick tenants out at all? Craig Dunlop puts the case

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Politicians welcome bigger universities, but want restrictions on extra student housing. They can’t have both, says Ian Fletcher

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The invisibility of private sector housing to local authorities is not only odd, it’s potentially catastrophic, says Jacky Peacock

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