HMO licences were an absolute lifesaver when I was an undergrad: It meant that no landlord was allowed to rent to a group of nonrelated students *unless* the place complied with stringent safety requirements.
...At some point in the last 20 years this seems to have been forgotten...
Fr Edward Barlow
“They were even burning down houses that weren’t HMOs”
Burning down HMOs is bad.
