Hey, #JeremyHunt... this is a real part of the #housingcriris - sub-standard housing - tinkering with #mortgage deposits to stoke house price #inflation will do nothing to address this problem...
We have a lot of rubbish housing that people (often renters) are being forced to live in, while you & your #landlord refuse to improve r maintain dwellings properly.
What we need is an enforceable landlords' duty to maintain alongside a better insulation scheme for owners.
@ChrisMayLA6 For what it's worth, housing in this country must conform to certain standards of habitability, for all the good it does us. Needless to say, without strict enforcement, the landlord class are soon back at their old tricks, charging whatever the market can bear without breaking, regardless of who it kills.
Last september, my #landlord decided to double my #rent, effectively kicking me out of my #home of 11 years. I fell into #depression. Luckily my parents own a plot of #land, and thus, with my dads help, i set off to build a #tinyhouse without rent. After 4 months and several tens of thousands of dollars of materials (which i raised by selling old #videogame collectables), i am ready to move in.
How do the #Tories ensure the poor are further impoverished?
One simple mechanism: freeze local housing Allowance (benefit) rates.
The squeeze is on & of course, when you wonder about the implications, along with the pain it causes poor households, it also acts to transfer the nation's income from #workers & the vulnerable to the #landlord class... yup, more Tory #classwar!
@ai6yr
"Physical fights erupted at a protest of the Berkeley Property Owners Association’s (BPOA) celebration of the end of the eviction moratorium on Tuesday. "
If anything warrants a protest, celebrating the ability to evict impoverished people certainly tops the list.
@HeavenlyPossum I think we do need to have practical discussions about what provision of housing looks like outside the current system of investors, developers, and realtors. And how we get there without having to have a revolution first. I like practical, proven models like social housing more than underpants gnome hand-waving about the details.
Wealthy #plutocrat#landlord who enriches himself on the labour of others criticises workers (during a cost of living crisis & housing affordability crisis) for wanting to save money.
Why is this news? Why hasn't the journalist asked some obvious questions to provide a little context for this bear-defecates-in-woods story?
how much does #Blackstone gain from leeching off the labour of their myriad tenants?
how much unpaid overtime and other forms of wage theft is facilitated by working from an office?
are workers more likely to fail to complete their contractual work while working from home, or is this "they don't work as hard" merely a euphemism for the extraction of unpaid extra work?
how much has the pandemic further shifted power away from workers and towards plutocrats?
what do the tenants from whom Blackstone extracts its billions think of working from home?
to what extent is Blackstone a significant contributor to the very housing/cost of living crises that are making the financial situation of workers ever more precarious?
