What can you do if your landlord won't fix something?
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She says she spent months trying to get things fixed - like her shower, which she couldn't use for 11 months.The letter, also known as a Section 21, told her the landlord was ending her tenancy in November."The ongoing battle with the landlord... it was it was all building up to this point," she says.She showed us examples of mould and damage around the rented property she's due to leave.
Last year the English Housing Survey said nearly a quarter of private rented housing was below standard.Greater regulation? But he says that's a "drop in the ocean", as he thinks there are about two million landlords in the country. But she says there are existing powers for local authorities to use, which they do not utilise enough.
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