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Making the rules tougher doesn't help when there is little to no ability to enforce them. Unless there is going to be a lot more resources made for housing inspection this will go nowhere.
Seeing Andy Burnham simping of landlords doesn't fill me with much hope this will improve post election either.
Yes. Forcing individual tenants to take legal action just guarantees nothing will happen, not least because they will get evicted if they try.
And it is nigh on impossible to get a decent builder in three weeks.
Councils already have the infrastructure for repairing the homes they own. They need to take responsibility for doing the necessary repairs in private rental properties and charging landlords a commercial rate for doing them. With compulsory purchase for landlords who can't or won't pay the bill.
It won't happen, of course. The law is just words and no one will be willing to enforce it.