A council has scrapped a rental accreditation scheme because it “didn’t work.”
It attracted only good landlords and thus did not improve housing standards in properties owned by less conscientious landlords.
The Stoke-on-Trent Live news website reports that the council will save £34,000 a year by scrapping the scheme, which it says worked as an advice service to landlords.
A council spokesperson is quoted saying: “Things have changed over the years. All the information that the accreditation scheme hands out to its members is freely available online, and so membership has dropped in recent years
"Since Covid, no in-person meetings have taken place. Only good landlords sign up to the scheme.
“It's the bad ones we need to get after, and the housing team at the city council, and the borough council, already have powers to go after bad landlords. That's where we should be concentrating our efforts."
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