General Election 8th June – Who on earth do landlords vote for?

I noted at the launch of labours housing policy today rent cap/control was not refered to. Like I predicted Corbyn would want to but the blair like labour mps don't hense why it was mysteriously absent. And as I also predicted the other day that is not to say they would not do petty regulations though.

I saw BBC Breakfast's brief report of this launch. With the caveat that my first cataract operation is less than three weeks away I would say the accompanying photographs looked to me like a house that was not in need of much more than a jolly good clean: food boiled over on the stove and not wiped up, filthy fingermarks on the electrical sockets, a patch of mould allowed to establish around the loo, etc. I don't imagine for a moment the place was in that state when the tenant moved in but all was displayed as an example of the dire conditions longsuffering tenants have to put up with because of alleged lack of landlord regulation!

Reply to the comment left by "Tobias Nightingale" at "01/05/2017 - 13:22":

I'm pretty sure i heard the words 'rent controls' in a report about Labour's housing policy but can't remember context now.

Corbin said landlords should be fined £100,000 for letting out sub standard properties. The councils and social landlords are going to be bloody broke. What a moron.

Reply to the comment left by "Tobias Nightingale" at "01/05/2017 - 13:22":

Nice that your predictions keep coming true but I bet you didn't predict s24 and all the other anti-landlord nonsense from the tories. None of it was in the tory manifesto but they still did it (in fact nicking it from the green party). What MP's say/promise/put in the manifesto and then what they do are entirely different things !

Reply to the comment left by "J Moodie" at "01/05/2017 - 16:56":

.... the worst landlord of them all - disgraceful !!

The Daily Telegraph1 May 2017
Poor housing for Forces families still not fixed

Efforts to improve housing for members of the Armed Forces and their families have failed and ministers must consider alternative arrangements, given the “dismal track record” of the main contractor, the Commons defence committee has said.

Despite government intervention and the introduction of an improvement plan with Carillion Amey, surveys have found military families are still dissatisfied.

Last July, the public accounts committee found that forces families were often left without basic requirements such as heating, hot water or cooking facilities.

Reply to the comment left by "Tobias Nightingale" at "01/05/2017 - 13:22":

They have only done announcements so far, we need to have a sniff of their manifesto.

Their sound byte is "renters have more rights if they buy a fridge" than the current law gives tenants. (Dingle Berries)

Councils to be given increased powers for complete blanket licensing.

Reply to the comment left by "Dr Rosalind Beck" at "01/05/2017 - 16:19":

All this 'Debate about various Political parties suggesting Rent controls is nonsense. we Already HAVE them.
When a Landlord serves a Section 13 Notice under the Housing Act, the Appeal process tells the tenant they can dispute te increase with the Residential Property Tribunal, as if find the increased level is above Market rent, they can intervene.
Have politicians not heard about the Housing Act !

Reply to the comment left by "Chris Daniel" at "02/05/2017 - 01:20":

Hi Chris. Do you know if it is ever disputed?

Leaflet in my office in Canterbury from local labour councillors wanting to implement rent controls and charge student landlords business rates on student lets (I hear this being mentioned quite a lot now) along with a load of other crap and prejudice. Anyone who says labour won't introduce rent controls is deluded - they would not be able to resist the tremendous populist vote this would garner. The so called tories would do it too if they weren't being corrupted by the build to rent big boys. Just a question of time. Landlords of UK - wake up. Increase your rents asap to market levels (massive increases are the only way to get s24 reversed - hard, indisputable, headline grabbing increases). No more mr nice guy keeping rents the same for years on end - the tenants don't really appreciate it in our experience, we're a business and not a charity, you'll kick yourself if you miss the boat and get stuck on rpi increases and/or they even restrict increases between tenancies.