Readers blog: Housing crisis not solved by demonising those with one or two properties

Many moderate and reasonable people were no doubt surprised to read that an estate agent was fined on grounds of discrimination for having advised a single mum with a toddler, who was on a HAP housing scheme, that the owner of the property ‘would prefer to rent to a couple’. 

Undoubtedly, this case can be looked at from different perspectives.

One wonders why the owner of the property issued such an instruction.