Claim: One third of private rented homes don't meet basic health and safety standards.
Fact-check: The state of private rented homes - Full Fact
Verdict: close to a third of private rented properties don't meet the official decent homes standard, but health and safety is only one possible reason a home can fail that. a sixth of private rental homes failed minimum health and safety standards in 2013.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Conor James Mckinney
Date published: 2015-11-26T00:00:00