27 April 2020
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"This week, the courts have once again found that the government’s Right to Rent checks – which require landlords to verify the immigration status of their tenants – cause discrimination on the grounds of race and nationality where it would not otherwise occur. In line with the conclusion of the High Court in March last year, the Court of Appeal found that ethnic minorities and migrants experience more difficulty than white applicants who are able to show a British passport, and take longer to find housing in the private rented sector.
...Disappointingly, the judges did not find that this constitutes a breach of human rights legislation or that the discrimination it causes makes the scheme as a whole unlawful."
Comment: if MPs won’t halt Right to Rent discrimination, the Supreme Court must (Free Movement, link) by Zoe Gardner
See: Right to rent rule 'justified' finds UK appeal court (The Guardian, link) and: Court of Appeal judgment ([2019] EWHC 452 (Admin), pdf)
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