Then there is the new tribunal. Landlords can still make whole building applications, but now tenants will be forced to apply individually for every apartment if they want to make applications. This will not speed up the process as the government claims the tribunal will, unless it is by means of discouraging most tenant applications. Then there is the filing fee, which is not to be waived in any circumstance, which will likely be a barrier to the disabled and elderly as well as anybody on a fixed income or government benefits. A tribunal with these barriers is no protection whatsoever to the majority of tenants.
Democracy is a slow and inefficient process.
Governments' whose priorities are efficiency are sometimes less than democratic and honest.