Readers Views: Look to the vultures not small scale investors for the cause of housing crisis

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. It may have been prompted by the behaviour of previous Hap tenants who thrashed and destroyed a house or apartment.