Greens demand rent freeze and eviction ban

My tenants have been with me for almost a decade and throughout this time I can honestly say my rent has either not been paid on time or there has been a shortfall 90% of the time.
I've worked through this with them as they have a young family but can not keep on doing this indefinitely so due to the arrears creeping up I've now issued them with a S21 and guess what, I'm now the worst landlord out there and a horrible horrible man.....Do they not understand???
Shelter, do you not understand? there are caring landlords out there who try and work with their tenants to keep a safe roof over their heads but if the tenants cant or won't pay their rents on time and in full what are we landlords supposed to do? If you have a car on Hire Purchase and fail to pay they come and take it away. Just the same as if you were an owner occupier, if you cant meet the monthly mortgage payments the mortgage company comes and reposes the house.
BTW the rent which the tenants pay me is 20% below the current market price.

How about the Greens petitioning the Government to guarantee the overdue rents payable to the landlords, then the tenants would not need to be evicted?

Who?
Green Party?

do they even have an MP?

The Welsh government have already said they would not follow Scotland on the rent freeze or section 21 removal for fear of losing thousands of PRS properties and increasing the housing crisis. Its unusual to hear Dripford come out with anything sensible but he did in this instance.

Yeah, and why not call for a price freeze on groceries and fuel while they're at it?

...oh and MAKE them sell their groceris and fuel regardless of whether or not they make a loss.

I like many landlords understand the difficult times we are in,but what stupidity these folk have.Are the mortgage companies going to freeze mortgage payments,that will be a big fat NO.Why should landlords subsidise housing because of goverment policies.where are they going to rehouse everyone once landlords quit .What planet do these folk live on ,or is it just vote gathering.

Give them what they want! And shelter, generation rent et al.
Let the mortgage companies sort the eviction out when the mortgage is not paid. Declare bankruptcy when landlords cannot get the EPC work done and pay the continuing increasing costs.refuse to pay the fines from the councils etc.
At least we will be liked then by someone!!
For a while!
Sick and tired of waking up every morning to get another media and tenants support group attack on landlords.
You tell anyone they are bad long enough and eventually they start to believe it. It’s a drip drip of mental bullying.
I admit I am becoming what they are telling me I am!
A landlord that no longer cares! My sympathies are all used up.
Yes I am selling up.

If the government want to freeze housing rents like they froze energy prices then the government needs to compensate housing provides like they compensated the energy providers.

I agree with much of what has been said above.
Who is this woman and what is SHE doing to help the housing crisis? What right does she have to 'demand' that Landlords' assets, Landlords' money, Landlords' own financial well-being should be compromised through the measures she proposes?
Her election platform was climate matters (per Wikipedia). Unless and until she has walked in a Landlord's shoes, perhaps she should keep her demands to herself. I wonder how she would respond if Landlords started making demands upon her and her livelihood.
PRS Landlords are not a substitute for the social housing sector, although increasingly we are expected to behave as though we are, through the proposed rental reform provisions such as longer-term security of tenure etc etc.
Like others, I am truly sick and tired of the constant landlord bashing. The returns are no longer adequate to put up with all the hassle and negativity, and I'm selling. The toxicity of the PRS these days is pushing so many of us out, creating a more severe housing crisis.

When will Ms Denyer and the rest of the government cronies get it?

First, anyone receiving an eviction notice now, will not be evicted until next Summer, at least. The courts are backed-up from the last eviction ban, and tenants have plenty of tricks they can use to delay and obfuscate.

The last ban meant a £20,000 loss for me, from a single tenant... and he was working and receiving SEISS! Meanwhile, I had covid really badly, had to stop working, was earning nothing and living off savings [because Sunak refused to support small business directors], other residents in the block were subjected to ASB with drug and drink-fuelled parties throughout lockdown [where were the Police?], and the stress badly affected my mental health.

I have sold that property, and will sell my remaining property, because it is not worth ruining my health and financial wellbeing for the sake of providing subsidised housing to those who don't deserve it.

Ony top of that, my mortgage payment has doubled, and all other costs have increased, to the point where the rent does not cover my costs. Perhaps this green woman can suggest a way forward for me to keep my tenant in situ. Otherwise, I will be issuing a S21 in the near future.