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Cakeguts said:

We have had a house to let recently where the next door neighbour works night shifts and sleeps during the day so we automatically turned down anyone who had multiple children or who wanted to become a student again in case they disturbed him. Is that discrimination?  In that situation we would not be letting to someone who didn't work under any circumstances in case they annoyed the neighbour.  The neighbour is also a private tenant but we are not their landlord. This is just polite to do this. 

There are multiple reasons as to why a landlord does not want to let to someone with 3 children or to someone who is not working. Not just the Universal Credit one.

Not all LL are equal, same for tenants. But ultimately, the LL can choose how much risk to take, but as it's a business it would be a bad business to allow a higher risk tenant to rent the place. Nothing personal but business, LL are not a charity and also have their own bills to pay.

It is well documented the costs for eviction and the time frame which can be up to 12 months, court costs are substantial too

Not all LL are multi millionaires and even if they were, noone would be happy with letting tenants go into arrears and cause damage