The UK has few rights for tenants, and those it does have are frequently ignored. If you stick up for your rights you will find yourself homeless. I am not exa

The UK has few rights for tenants, and those it does have are frequently ignored. If you stick up for your rights you will find yourself homeless. I am not exaggerating, there is no register of landlords, there are a lot of bad amateur landlords who bought into cheap "buy to let" mortgages. Agents don't stick up for tenants. Here in England I have lost deposit money because of blu-tacking a poster to a wall. (That was pre TPS but still). It is a culture where it is stacked against the renter. You don't feel like it is your home. And in many cases it isn't, the problem isn't just about renting,it is also about house sharing. Lots of what were two bed houses are now 2 separate 2 bed flats (Convert downstairs room and basement to bedrooms, squeeze in extra kitchenette upstairs). The quality of housing is decreasing to match demand. And even where that hasn't happened you'll find multi - tenancy is common.