Everyone deserves to live in a safe, warm and decent home. For thousands of people across Birmingham, that right hangs on the supply of suitable rented accommodation, managed and maintained properly by individual landlords and letting agencies. The vast majority of those landlords understand their responsibilities to their tenants, and take pride in the part they play in supplying homes for Birmingham’s families.

But there still exists a handful of unscrupulous landlords, who cram their properties with unsafe numbers of tenants, ignore fire hazards and refuse to carry out the basic repairs that make homes fit for habitation.

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