[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] am one of those
unfortunates who own well-built working-class tenement houses of one and two rooms and kitchen. They are all let, and thanks to careful factors, and the fact that there is only one small bond, I have only twice been actually out of pocket since the Rent. Restriction Act came into force. But, few of the tenants have not taken lodgers into these houses and charged them a rent out of all proportion to that paid to the landlord, who has to repair the extra wear and tear caused by the overcrowding, which he cannot control, and which, much against his will, is hastening the time when the houses may be termed slum property. You say emphatically that no owners of slum property should
receive any compensation. Would you advise any considera- tion for those who have not been able to prevent their property from degenerating, and who, also, will be heavily taxed to help to build new houses which will be let at unremunerative
rents ?—I am, Sir, &e., AN UNFORTUNATE LANDLORD.
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