Forty per cent of these homes, as today’s housing activists in England are apt to repeat, ended up in the hands of private landlords.
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Jennifer Wilson,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
Higher costs across the board—including the cost of repairs and wages for repair and maintenance workers—are also likely to meant that landlords would continue passing these expenses along to renters.
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