{"id":104115,"date":"2023-09-15T15:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/rent-crisis-why-bad-landlords-are-getting-away-with-it\/"},"modified":"2023-09-15T15:00:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T14:00:15","slug":"rent-crisis-why-bad-landlords-are-getting-away-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/rent-crisis-why-bad-landlords-are-getting-away-with-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Rent crisis: why bad landlords are getting away with it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/6EHn8aspBRU\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Rent crisis: why bad landlords are getting away with it\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6EHn8aspBRU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Meet the enforcers taking on the worst landlords in this housing crisis. They work for England\u2019s councils and their job is to help renters by finding bad landlords and punishing them &#8211; the problem is, they say they\u2019re losing the fight.<\/p>\n<p>[Watch previous episodes in our Rent Crisis series here: https:\/\/youtu.be\/2j48cEzhJzo] <\/p>\n<p>Around 1.6 million people in England are privately renting homes that pose an imminent risk to their health and safety.<\/p>\n<p>And when landlords fail to act, renters are advised to go to their local council for help.<\/p>\n<p>But based on data obtained from 252 councils in England, we can reveal the majority of councils have issued fewer than 10 financial penalties to rogue landlords in the last 5 years.<\/p>\n<p>And many have issued none at all. <\/p>\n<p>The renters reform bill making its way through parliament promises to give more power to councils to do that.<\/p>\n<p>But the sector is already at breaking point and environmental health officers say they\u2019re doing all they can, even if they want to do more.<\/p>\n<p>If you are affected by any of themes in this film visit Channel4.com\/Support<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Reporter &#8211; Milena Dambelli<br \/>\nCamera &#8211; Holly Snelling and Matthew Lucas<br \/>\nEditor &#8211; Matthew Lucas<br \/>\nExecutive Producer &#8211; Kieron Bryan<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Watch more of our explainer series here &#8211; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLXjqQf1xYLQ6bu-iixvoFTVsiXQVlVniX<br \/>\nGet more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the enforcers taking on the worst landlords in this housing crisis. They work for England\u2019s councils and their job is to help renters by finding bad landlords and punishing them &#8211; the problem is, they say they\u2019re losing the fight. [Watch previous episodes in our Rent Crisis series here: https:\/\/youtu.be\/2j48cEzhJzo] Around 1.6 million people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":104116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128813],"tags":[135095,131878,129898],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-104115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-channel-4-news","tag-enforcers","tag-meet","tag-taking"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rent crisis: why bad landlords are getting away with it | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Rent crisis: why bad landlords are getting away with it for free, here on News ISC. 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