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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

Private-rented slumlands

24 July 09

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