Labour want ‘Triple Lock’ for tenants

Reply to the comment left by Lindsay Keith at 29/04/2020 - 12:21
No - what they want is to destroy the smaller landlord so that the large corporations and housing associations can take over completely and continue to use schemes like Shared Ownership as ongoing, totally safe investment vehicles.

If “Delivering the social and other genuinely affordable homes Londoners need has always been the Mayor’s top priority " then the Mayor has failed miserably. Copley is right though, housing is a ticking time bomb, especially for London, but also across the UK.
From poor new-build quality, leasehold scandal and dangerous cladding through to affordable rents being unaffordable, housing associations dumping social rent tenants and private landlords facing ruin, housing is in crisis.
However, having 'conversed' with Copley on social media, he is not the right person to lead on housing solutions. He is typically, blindly anti-PRS and his failure to include representation form the PRS on his 'task force' is an entirely political move. Housing Associations are predicting anything from 20-40% of social tenants going into arrears. Will they be protected from eviction I wonder?
The housing crisis simply can't be solved without the resources, expertise and goodwill of private landlords. Somehow, people like Copley need to grasp that.

social landlords evict masses

Reply to the comment left by terry sullivan at 29/04/2020 - 16:24
Don't they just! As well as leaving their tenants to live in damp filled, dilapidated and often dangerous properties.
The new homes for habitation act (think that's what it's called) which will also apply to Housing Associations will see a flood of legal actions (replacing PPI scandal for many No Win No Fee solicitors waiting in the wings). Heaven help any private owners of these properties as they will be the ones forced to subsidise.

Reply to the comment left by terry sullivan at 29/04/2020 - 10:37
Landlords MUST pay! Dont even think about the new "mediation' service. In its own words: it is designed to "force" landlords to talk more to tenants. For this service, Landlords must pay £540 . IT is a "telephone" mediation service. Dont let's kid ourselves, this is designed to delay court evictions even further and to extract yet more cash from unsuspecting landlords.

The governments in all parties seek to ruin small landlords and see them as easy cash cows who cant fight back.

Mega landlords, who are in the upper echelons any way, will be fine and when there are only the mega landlords left, the balance will shift in their favour and they will be like modern day feudal lords of their own mega estates.

i reckon next misselling scandals will be part buy part rent and retirement home unfair terms--i certainly hope so

and then leasehold must be abolished

I'm sure they are capable of understanding PRS concerns, but the key lies why they want to understand it. What a way to get votes from most tenants, whatever the real world implications are!

POLITICS!

Reply to the comment left by Mike at 30/04/2020 - 13:28
They, like Tories, are not here to save the world, they are barely here to get their votes.

Reply to the comment left by michelle green at 29/04/2020 - 15:16
I completely agree with you Michelle.
I don’t believe the reason the Govt is creating all these changes to the laws, and making it much harder for landlords, is just due to a lack of understanding of the PRS or to gain votes but actually has the agenda in mind which you mention.
When I have rented from private landlords and from corporate landlords I have found that sometimes the private landlord will be flexible but the corporate landlord never.
The UK renters now jumping on the bandwagon to support propaganda outfits like Shelter and demonise private landlords will eventually realise that renting in the UK has become a mostly corporate affair and has no one willing to give them a break if they don’t have a perfect credit history etc, the rules will be the rules, no exceptions sonny, go see the council if you don’t like our terms.
These times of the private single house owning landlord will be remembered as the better times as the future is going to be much worse.
The complaining renters today are a ship of fools too shortsighted to see what’s coming next for the private renter.

Reply to the comment left by Mike at 30/04/2020 - 13:28
I take it you agree with my view then!
It really has become a joke for tenants since governments ended council housing support for working class families and shifted responsibility onto private landlords - but insisted on dictating terms and maintaining fierce control. What other private business could they do this to
- imposing hundreds of regulations and generating income streams - and empowering tenants to do what they like - when landlords themselves have very limited means to recoup unpaid rents and other losses.

Rogue landlords are more likely to be the minority wealthy ones and not the majority of us hardworking mortgage paying ones but it seems we're all deemed to be wealthy rogues.