The arguments in the article seem a bit of a muddle. Fair enough landlords make money from renting to poor people but they also make money renting to rich people and are probably not the main cause of the poverty.
Most laws and government policies that affect poverty have trade offs - subsidise education and someone has to pay for it and so on. And tennant's rights come into that - laws that favour renters at the expense of landlords will probably be lobbied against by landlords though that's a bit removed from the arguments in the article and affects wealthy renters as well as poor ones.
Most laws and government policies that affect poverty have trade offs - subsidise education and someone has to pay for it and so on. And tennant's rights come into that - laws that favour renters at the expense of landlords will probably be lobbied against by landlords though that's a bit removed from the arguments in the article and affects wealthy renters as well as poor ones.