The Financial Times featured comments from Ruth Porter on the private rental market.
Ruth Porter, spokeswoman for the right-leaning Institute for Economic Affairs, said that “subsidising the market then pushes up costs even more”.
“That money is lining the pockets of the private landlords, so they have become a vested interest in the system,” she said, adding that the answer was to liberalise the planning system so more homes could get built.
Read the full article here [2].