RENT RESTRICTION [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] sin,—In your
note on Rent Restriction in last week's issue you state that " the Bill fails to provide for the case of large houses let out in floors or single rooms to poor tenants," and you add, " these houses will now be decontrolled." This is, of course, incorrect, as the word " houses " includes parts of houses. So that if part of a large house with one floor is let at a rent of £20 per annum this part of the house remains controlled, as it does under the present Act, with possibly very serious inconvenience and hardship on the ground landlord, who may wish to rebuild the property (and may have wished to do so for many years) but is prevented because this one floor is controlled.—I am, Sir, &e., [This is the case. Our note had necessarily to be written before the actual text of the Bill was available, and on the basis of apparently authoritative forecasts.—En. Spectator.]
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