All articles by Anna Minton

  • Broken model: private landlords are targeting areas such as Edinburgh’s West Pilton, where they buy up homes to let to councils and housing association tenants
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    Private-rented slumlands

    24 July 2009

    The private-rented sector is hailed as the solution to the housing shortage. But in this extract from her new book, Ground Control, Anna Minton reveals how private landlords helped create ‘ghettoes’ in Edinburgh