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A Sheffield landlord who left behind used condoms after hosting a party in their tenant’s spare room is one of many testimonies to have helped spark a \u00a31.2m investment in enforcement for the private rented sector.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sheffield City Council will be making their “largest investment for 10 years” on a new team with powers to inspect private lets, carry out repairs and report on negligent landlords.<\/p>\n

This comes after renewed pressure from the union ACORN, who protested outside Sheffield Town Hall last month to demand city-wide landlord licensing.<\/a><\/p>\n

Will Russ, co-author of the campaign’s policy brief, said: “It just boggles the brain. One tenant came home to find a spare room in the house that wasn\u2019t currently being let out had clearly been used for a party or some sort of gathering by the landlord and his friends.<\/p>\n

“There were used ‘jonnies’ in the toilet. They basically just used the spare room in the house as their own personal sesh-room.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re taking on more and more cases, but we can\u2019t fight every landlord forever when the problem is higher up.”<\/p>\n

At the council budget meeting last Wednesday, ACORN member Caty Murray called on the council to introduce city-wide legislation.<\/p>\n

She said: “We believe that this is a crisis that demands urgent action.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019ve seen landlords refusing to repair homes overrun with mould, stealing deposits, serving revenge evictions.”<\/p>\n

Cabinet Member for Neighbourhoods and Community Safety Paul Wood, claimed there were “lots of issues” with a city-wide scheme, but reasserted the council’s commitment to ensuring high standards across the city.<\/p>\n

He said: “The council takes private rented sector landlords and the quality of their housing very, very seriously.<\/p>\n

“You will see in the budget later this afternoon the largest investment for ten years in the private rented sector.”<\/p>\n

In 2019, ACORN protested against Cllr Wood by placing a damaged kitchen in the Town Hall, originally ripped from a tenant’s house and dumped in their garden, after the councillor said there was “no evidence” a city-wide scheme was needed.<\/p>\n

Mr Russ said: “It worked really well, we got a meeting with Paul Wood, he was actually quite supportive of our action, he thought it was quite cool.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re very confident that over the next few months we\u2019re going to be building a really strong thing to get licensing rolled out across the city.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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