‘Why do landlords need so much money’, ask protestors
The London Renters Union (LRU) staged a rally in central London this weekend to demand an end to ever-rising rents.
Protestors in Central London have been pushing for rent controls as part of an event organised by the London Renters Union.
The event was coordinated with a series of similar protests across Europe as calls for rent controls get louder and groups become better organised.
The LRU says: “This action, coupled with the mission in our Plan for Change to boost housing supply by building 1.5 million more homes, will tackle the crisis we have inherited.”
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And activist Elyem Chej, a spokesperson for the LRU, welcomed the Renters’ Reform Bill but wants it to go further with measures such as putting a cap on rent increases.
She said: “Rent control can take the pressure off renters right now while we continue to push for the public homes we need and deserve,” she said.
A member of The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain who was speaking at the event compared conditions in London’s rental market to the favelas of Brazil.
One of the protestors, Conall Ó Brolcháin, told the BBC that although he had lived in Tottenham for the past five years, he was finding it increasingly difficult to stay there.
He said: “I’ve found my community there but we’re constantly experiencing rent rises, we’re constantly being pushed out of flats because we can’t afford them any more.”
Why do landlords need so much money?”
He complained: “That’s what the current regulations allow them to do because there’s no protection for renters.”
Another attendee, Teacher Raquel explained on social media that she was attending the rally because her rent had tripled in 16 years and she could no longer afford to rent an apartment and had to live in a shared house instead.
She said that she couldn’t understand why landlords “needed so much money”.
The LRU has featured in The Neg before when they called on Michael Grove to stop rents rising.
Teacher Raquel couldn’t understand why landlords “needed so much money”.
Maybe she ought to go ask Keir Starmer what Section 24 is?
And Selective Licensing?
And EPC to C Landlords are now selling again for.
A background to why you tenants are paying extortionate rents and can’t get anywhere unless you earning a cracking wage-Blame the Govt and Councils you vote for because you like it when they give more regs & rules to the Landlord-Guess who pays for this? You do.
I’m the biggest private provider to Benefit tenants in Nottingham over 27 years and not once has the Govt and Council come to ask me What they can do for me, so I and my colleagues will take the people we used to take. I will add to this list as I remember more.
They wanted Pet deposits banned. We stopped taking pets. Description here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u54ouYTdNr7WaCPYW18Q_tZdlJr8-VwSUJpE0IcPf5k/edit?usp=drivesdk
They don’t want Landlords helping tenants with Benefits and they bought in Universal Credit which has zero communication with Landlord- We now don’t take Benefit tenants.
They bought in Selective Licensing on good Landlords with good houses. We put the rents up to cover it and now don’t take risky tenants.
Landlord can get fined £30,000 if tenant takes battery out smoke alarm and Landlord CAN’T prove that tenant did it.
Landlord can get fined £30,000 if renting 1 bed flat to single person and he/she moves his/her partner in unbeknown to the Landlord if the Selective License only has license for one occupier.
They started fining Landlords £5000 if they didn’t check tenants passport properly on Right to Rent checks-Landlords stopped taking anyone that had the slightest chance of being illegal immigrant. Innocent UK citizens suffered.
2015, they bought in that if Landlord CANNOT PROVE he/she has gave tenant boiler certificate, you can never get your property back. Even if had a new boiler 5 years later, Judge says Not bothered, u not having your house back. This helped the current bad tenant, hurts the next 100,000 tenants waiting for a home. A purely Anti Landlord measure to stop Landlord getting rid bad tenant or having his house back.
Oct 2024 Unison now wants a rent freeze. Ooh are we a charity are we? What other individual who sells or provides something is told YOU CANNOT charge a price u wish?
Oct 2024 the Renter Rights Bill is going to make it law, u can’t do rent increase unless use Section 13. Now for years, I’ve agreed informally with tenant ‘Ok £25 a month, u still £200pm now below anyone else.’ Job done.
Now, I’m totally full up with paperwork and rules and regs. I have no more time. Section 13 some more say only a few mins. It’s still 30 mins by time printed, filled in, signed, scanned, sent. Each one when u have lots of houses on top of Selective Licensing INSISTING we inspect each house every 4 months (two weeks solid just on inspections every months) is taking me over the edge. My existing tenants are going to have to go with Letting Agent who charge £50 for a Section 13. That’s £4pm extra on the rent. Along with the extra £80pm Letting Agent fee which gets rid of cheap rent was charity.
Sep 2024 Ed Miliband MP wants all houses to EPC C which will cost Landlords £5000 and increase tenants cheap rents. As soon he announced this, he made more tenants homeless. Few words on that here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eI7z29SNRCDLLwX6_0QQChrwTxZ4jGZw4UNybVYfD1s/edit?usp=drivesdk
Section 24 Tax bought in by George Osborne of the Tories who said it will only affect 1 in 5 Landlords-Thats over 2 million tenants put at risk of homeless. Landlords with tenants of 25 years are now being made homeless on this one action alone.
Oct 2018 I’ve heard there’s a part of the RRB that says we must give tenants our home address on paperwork.
Details of that here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v7aETrvz0j6CdS7LZwYukthZAbhNxLWRKR8qShi6Gok/edit?usp=drivesdk
Every anti Landlord measure they bring in to they think will help the tenant has hurt the tenants massively.
Every time the MP’s talk an anti landlord measure, they’ve made more homeless and increased rents.
She’s welcome to buy all mine & see if she can keep the tenants in at the same rent they paying.
Increase supply of rental properties rent prices will fall.
Decrease demand for rental properties rent prices will fall.
We currently have mass immigration running at hundreds of thousands a year and landlords leaving the market in their thousands.
As a consequence, rents will continue to rise. Welcome to broken Britain, a country in decline.
“Rent for people not for profit”, since when was the private rented sector a public service? How misguided can you get? The unfortunate thing is that this entitled generation have grown up with renting as an easy, plentiful market and have no clue about how it was before the 1988 Housing Act. If this government carry on as they are we could see those dark days again.
Why do mobile phones cost so much, why are electric vehicles out of my price range, why does it cost so much to buy nachos in the cinema why why why. Its because houses are expensive, maintenance is expensive and the landlords can and are selling up and putting there money elsewhere creating a shortage of property. The more you take a dig and landlords the more sell up making it harder for tenants.
I actually did some figures yesterday in my local area in 21 years rents have gone up around 50% wages 100% my wife tells me our food shop is more than twice what is was in 2003 electricity is more than double . I accept rents may have gone up more in other places but look at the other items you are buying they have gone up as well.
There is no right of entitlement in life a lesson I learned many years ago.
Such a shame that these few shouty people do not understand basic economics. Perhaps if they each put their single brain cells together they might one day understand the big wide world, until then, how on earth do they survive daily life?