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TOI Correspondent from London: Private landlords are illegally advertizing for “Muslim only” and “Hindu only” tenants crossed London, an probe by the Daily Telegraph has found.The listings, posted connected Facebook, Gumtree and Telegram, diagnostic phrases specified arsenic “ Muslims only”, “for 2 Muslim boys oregon “2 Muslim girls” and “Muslims preferred”.Others accidental “suitable for Punjabi boy” oregon marque nonstop appeals to Gujarati speakers oregon those from Kerala and Haryana. Some accidental “Hindus only”.Such advertisements perchance breach the Equality Act 2010 successful the UK, which prohibits favoritism based connected religion, enactment and race, and different protected characteristics.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission lists “advertising a country for Asian tenants only” arsenic an illustration of an unlawful advert.Yet akin ads are being enactment retired crossed London.On Facebook, these ads tin beryllium recovered connected pages specified arsenic “Renting country successful London for Muslims” and “Muslim rents”. The Daily Telegraph recovered dozens of listings connected Telegram requesting tenants of circumstantial genders, religions and nationalities, each of which are perchance illegal.
TOI, too, recovered galore specified ads successful a Facebook radical called “Flat to rent successful London”, which has 325k members. These included adverts for rooms saying “Muslim Pakistani Girl Only” and “Looking for respectful Muslim boys only”, arsenic good arsenic “vegetarian Hindu only” and “Hindu preferred”.A Telegraph newsman asked a landlord renting a “Muslims only” country successful Barking for £850 a period whether it was disposable to those of different faiths, and was told: “Go away.”If a landlord lives successful the spot and shares indispensable facilities with a lodger, past determination is immoderate leeway for a landlord to advertise a penchant for a religion oregon gender, if worded carefully, but not connected race.A spokesperson from the National Residential Landlords Association said: “Advertising a spot to fto lone to adherents of a peculiar religion oregon philosophical beliefs is simply a wide illustration of nonstop discrimination, and arsenic specified prohibited by the Equalities Act 2010.
There is nary spot for this benignant of exclusionary signifier successful the UK’s backstage rented sector. No landlord oregon letting cause should effort to barroom immoderate prospective tenant connected the ground of religion, race, nationality, oregon ethnicity.
It is amerciable and tin pb to terrible ineligible and fiscal consequences.”A UK authorities spokesperson said: “Discrimination against anyone based connected their religion oregon contention is illegal, including successful the rental sector. Any landlord not complying with the instrumentality should look the consequences.”
