"In order to preserve his or her rent-control tenancy rights, and not violate rent-control laws, the letter writer must be careful not to charge the roommate more than the entire legal regulated rent," Mr. Kaminsky said.
He asked: "Is control over tenancy now on the table in terms of devolution?" Khan said, reasonably enough: "Who knows?" He revealed that it hadn't been on the table of the previous communities secretary, Greg Clark, with whom progress on housing issues in general had been good.
Raging against the "social engineering" of housing design guides and the "intellectually bankrupt" idea of land use plans, he set out his Urban Policy Manifesto, which rambled from scrapping housing space standards to abolishing all forms of rent control and tenancy regulation.
Security concerns relate to risk areas such as external data storage, dependency on the "public" internet, lack of control, multi-tenancy and integration with internal security.
Indefinite tenancies and rent controls are credited for giving Germany the most stable private rented sector in the world, alongside the US.
Under the tenancy agreement, the council retained control of naming rights to the stadium, which remains a publicly owned asset.
How many heads of our banks and building societies would prefer to live under a six-month assured shorthold tenancy rather than own (and control) their home?
Thelatest plank in Labour's cost-of-living strategy, the controls would bring three-year tenancy agreements, preventing landlords from evicting tenants as a way of jacking up rents.
Even then, it needs assurances that the city will commit to buying a big chunk of the network's capacity for such "anchor tenancies" as emergency services, traffic and parking control, video surveillance and internet telephony, as well as automated meter reading and other utility services.This is precisely how it should be.
There needs to be radical reform of the private rented sector, with more secure tenancies and stable rent controls.
