No DSS’ landlords face breaking equality laws

LANDLORDS and letting agents across the UK now could be breaking equality laws as changes made by a recent legal case.

Thousands of properties in the UK have effect become “no-go zones” for tenants on lower incomes and housing benefits, see themselves being rejecting from property’s they have shown interest in or letting agents as a whole.

Rosie Keogh a single mother won compensation in a recent legal case for sex discrimination against a letting agency, which refused to consider her as a tenanted after learn that part of her rent payment would be received by benefits.

Keogh said: “It made me feel like a second-class citizen.

“You are being treated differently – and it’s women and women with children who are bearing the brunt of this because they need to work part-time.”

She successfully argued her case that decimation against women, particularly   single women and on benefits.

A survey by Shelter a housing charity shows that 43% of the 1,137 private landlords had banned letting to such claimants and further 18% preferred not to let to them.