Dear Polly Neate of Shelter – I agree with you!

Thanks for all the comments. I did actually send this to Ms Neate too. I found her email address through a site called RocketReach Search if anyone's interested...

Lefty Looney Ms Neates ia not interested in your thoughts. just in keeping her £150,000 job
Your local MP & gob###te Michael Gove would be a much better bet platform to complain to michael.gove.mp@parliament.uk
Rishy Sunak has backed off because voters are complainng to there local MP's who frightened of losing there jobs next year have convinced him to change his anti landlord policies.. You can bet if Shelter is ever investigated it will not come up smelling of roses

I have been reliably informed that the proposed HS2 link from Birmingham to Manchester will be scrapped. There are over 380 houses that have been purchased compulsory by the Govt. and have lain fallow for 5 years or more along this soon to be abandoned route.

Gov. is intending to allocate to asylum seekers via Serco and others.

Nothing will happen posting on this site
Rishy Sunak is taking advice from hie MP,'s that is why he is putting through policy changes, as your local MP's scared of losing his job next year.
This is the time to complain to your MP and the gobs###e that is Michael Gove michael.gove.mp@parliament.uk
Do it now you will feel a lot better

Reply to the comment left by Russell Cartner at 30/09/2023 - 11:33I update my MP George Freeman on a regular basis and provide him with facts and figures inc the last release of HMRC figures showing
CGT from sales of 2nd properties (can be tracked accurately because it has to be paid within 60 days) that show the significant rise in sales. He passes them to DLUHC and then Rachel McLean writes a letter saying she does not believe that their policies are causing an exodus of Landlords. Willfully turning a blind eye to all the evidence - I will keep sending the evidence and just hope that eventually it gets so blindingly obvious that even Rachel McLean cannot pretend Landlords are not selling up. Oh and Rachel McLean also believes that the Scots rental market is stable - despite a recent report from West Lothian Council - where the council’s housing needs manager, Sarah Kelly, reported around 100 private landlords in West Lothian sold up their properties in 2022, resulting in a loss of 170 rented homes.

I couldn't agree more with you Richard! This one sided narrative has to stop!... we are already buried under layers of nonsensical legislation as it is... whilst the huge social housing landlords including the councils continue to go unpunished for breaching these same regulations time and time again! How many more news reports do we need to see about these huge social housing companies with tenants in severely damp, mouldy, water soaked properties, that tenants have been waiting "years" for repairs!!! Even critically ill tenants being forced to live in unhabitable properties! Yet the law never seems to force them to do the work!!! How many of these same social housing companies have reportedly had numerous cases of vulnerable tenants found laying dead in their properties for months and in one case I can recall...over a year!!! Whilst still collecting their rent payment via the benefits system!...
At least the private landlord keeps an eye on their tenant and property regularly enough for this type of scenario not to be a common occurrence in the private sector!
Yes, there are many unscrupulous landlords out there!.. but they break the law because they don't give a damn about the law!!! Therefore another piece of legislation will not make them care more! It is the genuine private landlords (who are the majority of private landlords!...) who are providing invaluable housing to a sector that the government is failing time and time again to provide sufficient supply to! Why can't they just punish those who break the law.... and damn well leave the rest of alone... and stop suffocating us with legislation that never tackles the real problem!

It all comes down to complaining to local MP ask him to investigate

I'd like to update this article with the reply I received from Polly Neate to the letter which is the subject of this thread. (I didn't expect any!)
She has carefully omitted answering some points, but in fairness to her, I thought it was worth posting.

Dear Richard

Thanks for your email and your interest in Shelter, I apologise for the delay in replying.

I won’t reply at length to all your points because I have so much to catch up on, having been first on annual leave and then on sick leave for several weeks. I am absolutely in agreement that not all landlords are bad and not all tenants are good. Life is never that simple! However, Shelter’s job is to represent our client base, which is a very large number of tenants who find themselves in extremely difficult circumstances as a result of the current legislative framework. I do believe that our proposals – should the government implement them – will reduce homelessness and benefit our clients.

Landlords have a very effective lobby in the form of the National Residential Landlords Association, and I meet regularly with their CEO Ben Beadle. We agree on more than you might think.

I’m glad you agree that the main issue that is creating the current crisis is the lack of social housing. This is Shelter’s main campaigning theme in the run up to the General Election. I also agree with you that social landlords are frequently at fault in their treatment of tenants. That’s why we campaigned for years, in partnership with Grenfell United, for the Social Housing Regulation Act, which I’m very happy to say has recently become law.

Very best wishes
Polly

There is a backlash against Shelter (Polly Neat) I believe she is backing off to save her own neck. I have never heard her say anything good about Landlords.
What do you think