Angela Rayner wants to ‘work in partnership’ with PRS landlords

Angela Rayner wants to ‘work in partnership’ with PRS landlords

9:54 AM, 23rd September 2024, About 2 months ago 42

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The deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner told delegates at the Labour Party conference that she wanted to ‘work in partnership’ with PRS and social landlords to deliver ‘decent and safe’ homes.

She said: “Many housing associations, councils and landlords do good by their tenants and I know how hard they’ve had it after 14 years under the Tories.

“Which is why I will work in partnership with the sector to deliver the change.”

Ms Rayner added: “Our renters’ bill will rebalance the relationship between tenant and landlord and end no-fault evictions – for good.

“Our long-term plan will free leaseholders from the tyranny of a mediaeval system.

“And a cross-government taskforce will put Britain back on track to ending homelessness.”

Extend Awaab’s law to the PRS

She added: “I will clamp down on damp and mouldy homes by bringing in Awaab’s Law in the social rented sector this autumn and we’ll extend it to the private rented sector too.

“We will consult and implement a new Decent Homes Standard for social and privately rented homes, to end the scandal of homes being unfit to live in.”

Along with a promise to enable social housing tenants to hold their landlord to account Ms Rayner lambasted the Tories for failing to build homes ‘year, after year’.

She said: “Michael Gove handed back nearly £2 billion to the Treasury in unspent housing funds. Mortgages have soared.

“Leaseholders are left at the mercy of eye-watering charges.

“Renters face crippling rent hikes in damp and mouldy homes. Homelessness is all around us.”

Fix the ‘Tories’ housing emergency’

Ms Rayner promised to fix the ‘Tories’ housing emergency’ and get Britain building decent homes for working people.

There will be a new planning framework to deliver affordable homes and deliver ‘the biggest boost to social and affordable housing in a generation’.

She told delegates at the conference in Liverpool: “My mission is not just to build houses; it is to build homes.

“Because we cannot build at any cost. These new homes must be warm, secure and most importantly safe.”

Give landlords confidence

On Twitter/X, Ben Beadle, the chief executive of the National Residential Landlords Association, said: “These reforms at least give certainty, but must be very carefully balanced between giving renters greater security and landlords confidence to stay in the market.

“We are in the middle of a housing crisis with 21 applicants per property – this is unlikely to improve if there are not some modifications to the Bill on implementation, court reform, students and refinements to possession grounds.

“You cannot say you are giving landlords more robust grounds when the mandatory rent arrears ground will see a doubling of notice periods from two to four weeks, and three months of rent arrears not two. It sends the wrong message.”


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12:51 PM, 23rd September 2024, About 2 months ago

Reply to the comment left by TheMaluka at 23/09/2024 - 12:31
You never know which tenants will qualify for legal aid. Even a highly paid pillar of Society can lose their jobs and qualify for help.

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12:58 PM, 23rd September 2024, About 2 months ago

Reply to the comment left by Northernpleb at 23/09/2024 - 11:45
I can only imagine the stress and difficulties that must cause. I have had similar but never 2 years of not paying. It would have bankrupted me. I can say that the relief that one the last one was eventually rehoused I was beyond words. I did not realise just how much it had been affecting my mental, physical and lifestyle until they were going. Even after the news I was not believing it.
At this point I knew the remaining 2 out of an initial 19 were going. I am never ever going through that again.
My health and my family's well being (it affected us all as I was affected so much by it) will never be worth any amount of money.
S21 already has issues, as has been mentioned many times before by loads of us on here, however the threat of banning it is the last straw. I have served notice on decent tenants now and feel a bit guilty but, you know what? I feel so much better. I'll never be a landlord again. Let the corporations, councils, and government sort it.
I'll not have anyone dictating me how I can use something I pay for or have paid for tell me what I can and cannot do. I did not stand on my own two feet, sacrificed lots of things to be kicked in the teeth.

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13:03 PM, 23rd September 2024, About 2 months ago

Reply to the comment left by PH at 23/09/2024 - 10:41
“ and here we have it -- ''“Because we cannot build at any cost. These new homes must be warm, secure and most importantly safe.” -- the get out clause.”

This is a good comment but I think it’s wrong, have you ever built houses? You have to jump through so many hoops to make sure they’re up to building regs…so all new houses have to be warm, secure and safe or they won’t get signed off. There’ll be an excuse but not this one!

We have two plots and for over a year have failed to get planning…one will fit 5 houses and the borough council has an overage whereby they get 50% of the uplift in value if planning is granted…yet the local council is throwing up obstacles at every turn (newts, noise, surface water, biodiversity, landscaping, drainage…all legitimate, but the biggest block is that we’ve proposed car parking in front of the houses…they don't like that the cars can be seen from the A road! We’re next to a garage with over 300 cars on the forecourt. How many developments have hidden parking?)

Planning reform is needed for sure. But even then you can’t force the big builders to deliver. What then??

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13:09 PM, 23rd September 2024, About 2 months ago

Reply to the comment left by Neil P at 23/09/2024 - 13:03yes I have. and you are correct. its not simple. I'll never do it again. the hoops are sometimes ridiculous. I turned down the last option of building even after eventually getting PP as I could not make the figures work. I'd have made a loss. sold it with PP for a good profit.

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13:14 PM, 23rd September 2024, About 2 months ago

I don't think "partnership" means what she thinks it means.
She means partnership in the way slaves and slave masters are partners working together on a plantation.

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13:28 PM, 23rd September 2024, About 2 months ago

Reply to the comment left by Neil P at 23/09/2024 - 13:03the rest of my reply was cancelled. Yes I have built houses from buying the land to completing the builds. I eventually obtained planning on another site and decided it was not going to be profitable. Not for me - not enough contacts or whatever to make it work. sold for a good profit though!. Its still not built on. The statement was made to encompass the whole issue of building. Rayner has several reasons she could quote not to build. cost/ value for money/ location not required for work/ road infrastructure/ lack of schools/doctors/dentists/hospitals. the list goes on. Therefore the 'get out' clauses are already on the table. Its all empty promises from a clueless government.

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13:31 PM, 23rd September 2024, About 2 months ago

So many things to unpack here.
I am a landlord first and foremost and have been for nearly 20 years.
I have had 2 evictions in that time, both within the last 18 months. The combined cost is around £25,000. The stress of the situation is horrible and the court system isn't fit for purpose. The Council were, in both cases completely useless. I remained on civil terms with both the tenants. Because of this I know that in both cases the not only didn't they abide by, but also weren't aware of the homelessness reduction act of 2017. I can also prove that the housing officer in one case repeatedly lied to the tenant. So much for working with the PRS.
So now as mentioned in a previous post as my houses become vacant I will look to sell.
I am fortunate that a swathe of mine are near an American airbase. So Americans are now the tenant of choice as I know I will always be able to get my house back. If I do rent then I would rather the property sits empty while I wait for a military tenant. So the very system that is supposed to help renters has alienated me to the point where I don't want to rent out anymore.
I have a second smaller company that I am trying to get off the ground. That is a property development and building company. We have recently purchased a plot with outline planning, some 4 months later we are still trying to get detailed through for a bungalow with the same footprint as the outline.
Add to that a CIL ( community infrastructure levy) charge of £18,800 and BNG ( biodiversity net gain) of nearly £30,000, neither of which are payable if you are a self builder, and I'm wondering how the hell anyone can afford to build houses.
This is a project that should sell for £600,000 and at the moment projected costs are at £540,000. Now I can't get watertight before the winter, so costs will rise.
Myself and my business partner will make the decision this week on whether to sell it on or not.
As a footnote to this without a hole being dug in the ground the Council Tax people are chasing to know when they can start charging me.
Angela needs to go right back to grassroots I think.
Politician promises just don't work in anyway in this.

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13:39 PM, 23rd September 2024, About 2 months ago

Reply to the comment left by Martin at 23/09/2024 - 13:31
for what its worth I would not do it on a 10% margin. Its too tight. 10% is only a contingency amount and in the current climate that's not even practical.
your project is small - you cannot get economies of scale. Even if it took you only year to complete and sell your already down to 8% at best.

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13:52 PM, 23rd September 2024, About 2 months ago

hahahahahaha!!!!

AR wants to talk NOW?

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14:02 PM, 23rd September 2024, About 2 months ago

Reply to the comment left by Reluctant Landlord at 23/09/2024 - 13:52
yes. so does my local authority. I have 2 going through as sales. then last week the LA sends me an email asking if I want to rent them out - via them. LOL
Are they really that stupid!
done it before - got stitched up and lost money. Twice - yes made a big error on the second by actually believing they had changed. no they have NOT!!
They even told my tenants to stay put until the bailiffs called - apparently - no proof only the tenants word but as they wanted to be evicted to get a subsidised LA home they had no reason to tell me that.
rather pay their CTAX and standing utilities costs than ever go with them again.
reap what you sow!!

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