By RLA Radical action is needed to protect tenants from the grip of criminal landlords, as new data points to worryingly low levels of enforcement of rented housing regulations by local authorities.
According to Freedom of Information data, collected by the Residential Landlords Association (RLA), among the 255 councils that responded, just 827 prosecutions had been taken out against landlords over the last five years following notices to improve a property being issued.
