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.
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.
#rents are (again) at record levels (according to Rightmove, at least) but interestingly around a quarter of all rental contracts are then concluded at a discount to the advertised rate....
This might be 'realism' by #landlords or suggest in some cases the rents advertised are not achievable - there are no renters prepared to pay these astronomical rents.
Given discounted rents have grown fro 16% - 23% in a year, may suggest #Landlord driven rent #inflation is peaking?
Only The City-State of #Hamburg [#Germany] made "purposeful vacancy" illegal and seizes vacant property, fixes them up and rents them out and will only return ownership to the #landlord that neglected them after the landlord paid all the fees, fines and costs of renovations.
Also said apartments are then only offered in a rent-controlled fashion...
the new normal that should have arised from the current covid #pandemic was a fully #vaccinated populus, masks as common usage, huge amounts of industry restructured for remote #work, single payer #healthcare, elimination of the #landlord class and massive #public#health awareness
but the minute we approached any of that #capitalism screeched on the brakes. this state will never be out for your interests.
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!
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?
According to the controller's office, 96% of those eviction filings were for non-payment of rent, 91% came with a 3-day notice and represented $186.5 million accumulated rent owed....
#Halifax#tenants of a #landlord who claims to own more than 100 #RentalUnits received a notice that their #leases are coming to an end. That strikes some as problematic—even if it’s entirely permissible by law.
A historic wave of tenant organizing is on the verge of winning renter protections that would be attached to federal loans—affecting 1 in 4 apartments. But Greystar, Blackstone, and AvalonBay are spending millions to block it....
Landlords around the world, you need a Brisbane Property Agent, This is Why
_Real estate agent has broken into my rental twice with a group of people without giving notice. I have PTSD and this is giving me flashbacks...
Eviction notices in Los Angeles County skyrocketing (www.foxla.com)
According to the controller's office, 96% of those eviction filings were for non-payment of rent, 91% came with a 3-day notice and represented $186.5 million accumulated rent owed....
Real Estate Not Releasing undisputed Bond over $1000 (www.reddit.com)
Brisbane landlords and realtors are the world's leading edge of landlord practice...
[Analysis] National Rent Control? It’s Closer Than You Think. (www.youtube.com)
A historic wave of tenant organizing is on the verge of winning renter protections that would be attached to federal loans—affecting 1 in 4 apartments. But Greystar, Blackstone, and AvalonBay are spending millions to block it....