There's plenty of scope for debate on how we tackle the housing crisis in the private rented sector: build more, cap rents, enforce a landlord register, make better use of the estimated 15m empty bedrooms in England alone.
Once the extent of underoccupation is known (and many providers haven't got that far yet), they can work out the potential loss of income from non-payment versus the additional costs in collecting rents, enforcing non-payment, encouraging downsizing and supporting tenants through change.
Before rent caps were enforced, landlords were able to set initial rents at whatever they wanted.
"There needs to be enforced rent controls to put an end to this".
"There needs to be enforced rent controls to put an end to this," Shelly Asquith, NUS vice-president for Welfare, told the Guardian.
If you go small, you'll become the de facto property manager and will need to personally collect rents and enforce the rules.
But according to David Fishlow, a spokesman for the New York State Attorney General's office, the new ban on renting cannot be enforced retroactively.
This led to a massive peasant exodus to the cities, where they were met by evicted poor as the new urban landowners, the wealthy and politically connected, enforced rack renting, with rents rising manyfold.
Condemning the very rent controls he once enforced, he said that they had turned housing into a disaster.
The second intensive planting period was from 1949 to 1975, when the Taiwan Forestry Bureau enforced the rent afforestation policy.
