Tenants urged to report criminal landlords and agents in London

Asking tenants to willing dump themselves in 'temporary accomodation ' somewhere miles away is unlikely to get too many responses.

So, there were 6000 uses of the tool in about 6 years. Let's say about 1000 a year. Of 2,7 million renters, only 1000 report their landlord each year. That means every year 0.037% of renters have reported their landlord. 99.963% have not.
Obviously some cases will not be reported and perhaps some of the reports will be false and it could be that more are now reported than in 2017 before the TFA 2019 came. However, I wonder how this compares to other areas relating to tenancies, such as how many rogue tenants defaulted on their rent or illegally sublet or were guilty of anti-social behaviour?

Can the Mayor please set up a .Report a Rogue Tenant tool on the website for landlords and agents to report bad behaviour?

Why can they not accept that most tenants are treated fairly and that most landlords act within the law (despite the government and Local Authorities forever introducing rules to try to make landlords non-compliant).

Of course, any rogue landlords or agents should be reported.

Another load of socialist landlord hating diatribe. Perhaps there should be an alternative scheme:

The ‘Report a Rogue Mayor (RARM) or Landlord Hating Lefty’
( LHL) tool.

Landlords who have been charged illegal money making for no reason licensing fees can use the Report a Rogue Mayor or Landlord Hating Lefty’ tool on the Rogue Mayor of London’s website to inform their local Mayor Removal Team, who can take eviction action against the offender in his next election and put him on the dole"

Has a landlord l am all for getting dodgy landlords out of the prs , but how about a tool for bad tenants and stop the defending of these people when they are clearly bad tenants and to remove them asap to give the property to a decent tenant who appreciate what they have and not have the sense of entitlement that would go along way .

Reply to the comment left by Michael Booth at 28/09/2023 - 07:35Even tenant lobby groups know, but will never admit, that there are far more rogue tenants than rogue landlords.
The problem is that if we now have a rogue tenants database to which landlords had access, hundreds of thousands of tenants would be blacklisted by the PRS. That would concentrate the worst tenants in the public sector and housing associations. The system relies on private landlords getting caught out and having to suffer from bad actors.