Council reveals its housing crisis as private landlords sell up

10,000 applicants for 560 properties! Reminds me of the no doubt apocryphal wartime story of the waiting time for a maternity bed being 11 months.

I know a number of tenants that live alone in both social housing and the private rental sector.

There are couples who have a property each but live together most of the time. They are incentivised to do this by the benefits system and receive much higher benefits by pretending to live apart.

The system is seriously flawed.

With the constant vendetta against landlords - I’m not surprised many are selling up!

"[Ms Kelly] also said that there was a growing lack of trust in the private rented sector (PRS) from tenants who had been served with eviction notices."

This shows the cynicism of Left Wing politicians (though Conservatives south of the border are not much better). Persecute the providers of a service relentlessly and then blame them for the obvious consequences of taking action to stop the persecution.

Not has if the authority and government weren't told constant attacking of landlords , constant defending bad tenants , tax, licencing constantly moving the goal posts in regulation its akin to mental tourcher for landlords.

The war on landlords is being waged even more fiercely in Scotland and Wales than in England and its hardly surprising that this is where the biggest landlord exodus is taking place. Councils covering that up by pretending its due to the "cost of living crisis" will just prolong the problem.

Who would have thought it?

Nothing to worry about, Govt Ministers have a cunning plan. Harass Landlords until they sell up, rake in loads of extra GCT money from departing landlords, spend that extra money on tax breaks for their wealthy mates in the BTR sector who will build lots of shiny new apartments for the more affluent tenants, take a seat on the Board of their favourite BTR corporation or take an “advisor” gig (as did George Osbourne at Blackrock) and then retire comfortably on a gold plated Govt pension.
Oh, but what about the 10,000 homeless on the Council waiting list you may ask? No problem, the Govt with taxpayer money will set up a local cardboard box factory to manufacture boxes for the homeless to live in. This kills two birds with one stone and creates great headlines “Govt provides jobs and homes”.
Everyone lives happily ever after, end of story.

So nothing to do with imposing the prt private rental tenancy . With 18 clauses of which two were to be in landlords favor . Then at last minute watered down.

Then we had FTT first tier tribunal system. Where almost immediately a huge back log occurred .

Ment to be free for all users but the biased towards a landlord is ridiculous.

One mistake error and case kicked out.

Many waited 8 months to a 1 year to find out if landlord was aloud a hearing or not.
No complaints procedure against FTT poor decisions .

Then we had COVID restrictions.

They introduced rent and eviction ban .
Announced Monday brought in Tuesday.

Extended twice due to cost of living .

Yet those most evicted by cost of living are in social housing they got rent increase last April then after first six months social housing are allowed to increase rents by 11.6% .

When this was pointed out they said private landlords can increase rent by 3%. If the were in financial hardship up to 6%.

One landlord has to give over 45 different pieces of financial information including his wife's and children's bank accounts.

This would be given to rent officer and no doubt tenant.

Let's put this into prospective £500 rent increase £15 if allowed 6% a whole £30 a month . So mortgage up £150 a month and the max you can increase rent is £30.

Patrick Harvie claims landlords are not effected by cost of living .

Student in HMOs are now exempt this rent increase ban .
Even though they would be some of the lowest earners.

Call me suspicious but major developer threatened to pull £200 million pounds HMO accommodation.

Suddenly they could change policy.

I could go on . But is it any wonder landlords are giving up.

Additional stamp duty 6%

Landlord registration.

Double council tax .

Council tax exemption getting less depending on district.

Heavy handiness by councils dealing with landlords .

But hey it is landlords fault .

No this cant be a crisis. All those properties that were in the PRS and now sold off are now available to be bought by the renters. The Marxists have said so, it must he true! What do you mean, these renters can't afford to buy them? That's poppycock. They could pay the rent couldn't they? Why cant they afford the mortgage, after all it cheaper than the rent, isin't it?
It must be the right causing trouble again. Why won't the banks lend them any money to buy their own property? What do you mean, they aren't earning enough, and they have no savings for the deposit? Clearly this is all just the political right, making up stories again! Once the Marxists have destroyed the PRS, everybody will be happy, and have a house to live in, by the sugar plumb fairy god mother who looks after us poor people and it will all be sweetness and light. Oh! Look there's a pig getting ready to fly, net zero will make the nation profitable, and all those illegal immigrants will find jobs and pay taxes, to help the poor bankrupt government pay the £3T debt they caused the country.
When will people wake up to reality?