COVENTRY City Council is extending its work protecting tenants across the city and ensuring landlords meet the highest standards.
Councillors will meet to talk about making sure houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) are kept in good condition and protect those living there.
In the meeting councillors will also consider extending an additional licensing scheme in Coventry for a further five years so it will run until 2030.
The scheme allows the Council to combat the impact of poor quality HMOs, enabling it to work with landlords to improve standards and challenge them.
The Council will also be able to tackle issues such as bad management and anti-social behaviour to make sure houses are well kept.
Coun David Welsh, cabinet member for housing and communities, said: “Local people I talk to have strong feelings about the impact and standard of HMOs in neighbourhoods throughout the city.
“That is why we have an additional licensing scheme, and we try to work with landlords to raise standards. This is about helping landlords, protecting tenants and taking action on behalf of communities.
“I want to stress that there are lots of good quality landlords running HMOs in Coventry and this scheme recognises those landlords as well as identifying those who need to make improvements.
“There has been a lot of good work over the past four years, but there is still more to do and extending the scheme will allow us to be more proactive and to challenge bad landlords and let them know they must improve standards or face enforcement action.”
