Residential and development

Private-rented slumlands

By and Anna Minton Anna Minton24 July 2009

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

Source: TOBY WILLIAMS, THE SCOTSMAN

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

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