Don’t call all landlords parasites | Letters
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Lorraine Hewitt and Martin Cooper respond to a recent Guardian article
Rhik Samadder's view of landlords (Landlords are social parasites. They don't deserve any awards, 16 April) does not reflect the true situation and is not the balanced reporting normally associated with the Guardian.
We agree there are certainly many bad landlords, but there are also good ones. Bitter experience taught us that when landlords have bad tenants there is little true protection for the landlord. Not all landlords are raking in money from poor quality housing.
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