The Green Party has passed a motion to abolish landlords at its recent party conference.
Believing the PRS has “fundamentally failed” the motion is accompanied by text that claims private landlords add “no positive value to the economy or society.”
This includes a six-step plan to abolish landlords.
These include introducing rent controls and abolishing right to buy, removing finance for landlords and ending BTL mortgages and moving forward a Land Value Tax on owners, not tenants.
At the same time the motion is urging more finance support for councils and tenants, with the scrapping of Section 21 evictions.
The motion, though passed by party members, has yet to be debated.
When contacted by BTL Insider, the Green Party declined to comment further but did point to comments in the press from Green MP Carla Denyer that sought to distance away from the “abolish” wording.
"While the motion to conference had an eye-catching name, it does not actually ‘abolish’ landlords,” said Denyer.
“It does however address the housing crisis, empowers tenants and improves their wellbeing.
“It contains a range of policies which, over time, would reduce the proportion of the housing market that is privately rented, and increase the proportion of socially rented homes.”
