England’s renters are about to gain more rights, but until then landlords may exploit weak regulation even more cruelly | Nick Bano

Labour’s renters’ rights bill looks likely to pass this week .

It proposes to ban no-fault’ evictions and abolish England ’s notoriously insecure tenancies.

The bill goes some way towards rebalancing landlord-tenant relations, bringing them closer to historical norms.

Nick Bano is a barrister specialising in renters’ rights and homelessness law.

He is the author of Against Landlords : How to Solve the Housing Crisis (Verso, 16.99 ). He says the argument will never hold water again if landlords take advantage of the last easy evictions.