Landlords for homelessness charity to compete with Shelter and Crisis?

Reply to the comment left by john isaacs at 13/12/2022 - 10:12
The reason shelter is so wealthy (why does it hold so many £millions in reserve?) is it receives a lot in government funding, and is able to push its cause among the great and the good around the dinner tables of North London, who are happy to be seen to be 'supporting' the homeless, but don't want to look any deeper into how shelter does [doesn't] do it.

Landlords, on the other hand, are seen as the dirt on the soles of their shoes!

Reply to the comment left by Robert M at 13/12/2022 - 11:27
I would willingly have worked with the local authority under the terms outlined in your post. Unfortunately the LA has made me their enemy, trying to inflict bad tenants on me without any support and even has a policy of taking good tenants from landlords to accommodate in social housing (I have this as a written policy). I have now upgraded my property to be well out of reach of any benefit tenant and will never work with any LA again. Ten times bitten, forever shy.

Reply to the comment left by TheMaluka at 13/12/2022 - 11:43
This is why I left working in local authorities, and went my own way, as although there are some genuinely good people in councils, and they try to help those in need, very often this is not allowed by the legislation, budget constraints, or more often than not, political ideology aka protecting the status quo (jobs of senior management within the LA hierarchy).

There are solutions to the housing crisis, that would benefit good landlords, and the LA budgets (public purse), as well as encouraging good behaviour by tenants, but nobody has yet had both the power and the balls to put such solutions into practice.

The Peter Principle prevails in local government, leading to, in time, every post tending to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out their duties.

Reply to the comment left by Robert M at 13/12/2022 - 12:02
I confess I had to look up the Peter Principle but every politician of the last 30 odd years is a victim of it! They have no expertise in anything at all and that is why they can be running schools one day and a Cabinet reshuffle will have them doing something entirely different another day. I think we are having a collective "light bulb" moment over this and I empathise with Nigel Farage, in that he never wanted to be in politics but the politicians would not let him run his business. Hence he had no choice but to challenge them - we might have to do the same!

Reply to the comment left by Susan Bradley at 13/12/2022 - 12:33Landlords are effectively 'going on strike' by selling their properties, but this is strike without prior notification or end.
I agree that the Peter principle applies at both the national and local government levels with very few exceptions.

Reply to the comment left by Tim Rogers at 13/12/2022 - 10:41
Perhaps charities should only be given charity status if all staff are volunteers...

Reply to the comment left by Luke P at 13/12/2022 - 13:23
... or don't Earn £ Millions from Selling courses.

Our strike takes place by us selling up but the difference is most of us will not come back because either we are too old to start over or we may just like not being at the beck and call of the tenants and whipping boy boy of the Council and Government.
Once we're gone ,we're gone .
Council and Government take note.

Reply to the comment left by Robert M at 13/12/2022 - 11:27
So what is the name of your charity?

Great idea - I already have two families in my houses who do not pay market rent - they are decent people and do what they can - I cannot afford to let them live rent free but I would not kick them out, there are occasions when they for one reason or another cannot afford the rent in a given period - maybe I am being foolish but I think there are a number of landlords who would do the same unlike this government, formally Osbourne and Gove in particular who judge everyone by their own
snake like actions.