The Lemon Fool

This morning's news: both parties talking about tenants' rights. But they're saying somewhat different things (albeit without sufficient details for a proper critique):

Tories - restrictions on sub-standard and crowded housing.
Labour - protection from no-fault eviction.

That looks like almost diametrically opposite to the parties' relative stance of a generation ago. Tories proposing red tape that will inevitably raise administration costs, smell of micro-management and dampen supply in a very socialist manner, while Labour[1] look to a long-overdue change to offer basic security of one's home.

[1] Provided they don't do something really dumb like fail to preserve the existing but unused provisions for landlords letting out their own home while temporarily away.

It's no wonder landlord's are quitting in droves, the wave of deregulation through the 80s/90/00s is being progressively reversed.

'restrictions on sub-standard and crowded housing.'
I don't have a problem with this. IMV it mostly impacts the rank cowboys, like '12 people living in a rented garage' (there was a purge on many such set-ups down near Hounslow a few years ago).
'protection from no-fault eviction.'
'No fault' according to who? What level of proof required, if it was contested would you have to go to court/wait/seek an enforcement order/wait/get a bailiff? This measure IMO would be a major change - no thanks!