Michael Gove has pledged to “name and shame” landlords who let out substandard properties, after a boy aged two died from untreated mould in his home.
Speaking in the Commons yesterday, the levelling up secretary accused Rochdale Boroughwide Housing of a “terrible dereliction of duty” that was “rooted in ignorance and prejudice”.
Gove said his department would “name and shame” landlords who had been found to have breached standards or committed severe maladministration, adding: “The time for empty promises is over.”
Awaab Ishak died in 2020, three years after his father first complained of mould and six months after a council surveyor found the home unfit for human habitation.
