Pro-tenant group advocates sweeping reforms for the PRS

More grounds for universal rent increases.

This is just getting ridiculous now.
Any landlord still remaining in tne industry needs their brain examined.

Time for a mass exodus and let the government and shelter clean up the mess and the mass homeless tenants whilst illegal migrants are sitting in hotels fir free waving at them through the window.

Our MPs have lost the plot.

In the very same words that these hard lefties use about another subject

"MY PROPERTY
MY CHOICE"

Reply to the comment left by moneymanager at 26/07/2023 - 10:51To be fair, this is in line with what the Fabian Society has always stood for. Since it was set up it has had a far left socialist stance, so we should expect nothing else from this body. Where such principles have been state practice the result has always been a levelling down for the masses with a few privileged elites in control of the means of distribution via control of the armed forces. Their appeal is always to those members of society who feel the system is rigged against them and they have nothing to lose. At the moment that is how many, especially young people in or looking for rental accommodation, feel because of the policies of the current government, the state of the economy and the impact of world events. It is easy for them to find groups to blame for their perceived disadvantage - landlords, the baby boomers, etc., (particularly if one and the same) are obvious targets.

Reply to the comment left by Old Mrs Landlord at 27/07/2023 - 07:13
That's very true. I get told you baby boomers got it all bla bla bla.
They don't want to hear that you actually worked for what we have, went without at times, did not get such hand outs from parents or .Gov.
Started from nothing with parents in a tied cottage, both died with nothing. Just worked any job to earn money, old cars, no computers games, just saved and worked and learnt.
And now these people want to take it all away to give it to some lazy sods that expect government hand outs, best tv's, holidays, game consoles, every benefit without any effort and want us to pay for having kids and more kids.
Goodness that turned into a bit of a rant and a bit off subject, sorry.

Reply to the comment left by Richie at 27/07/2023 - 08:19
Totally correct though.

Reply to the comment left by Richie at 27/07/2023 - 08:19It would be just as legitimate for me, one of the pre-baby boom generation born in the early months of the war, to be envious of those born seven or more years later but, hard though my childhood and teenage years were, I have always considered myself so much more fortunate that my parents' generation who lived through two world wars separated by the near-starvation years of the 1930s depression. A "count your blessings", work hard and make the most of the talents and opportunities you have attitude results in a far more contented and fulfilled life than the envious, hard-done-by, entitled, blame-culture mindset of so many nowadays.

I wonder if there's any chance the Fabian Society has done any assessment of how their proposals will affect the rental market and the supply of housing as landlords flee the sector? Thought not.

But surely as believers in "equality" they should also have proposed

- tenants pay landlords compensation when they choose to move out.

- a national Tenant Register like the Landlord one in the RRB - paid for by prospective tenants - so that landlords can screen out people who have demonstrated they are not "fit and proper persons" to occupy someone else's property. Such an important social function cannot be left to the vagaries of private sector credit records and "references", which lack the full capacity for data collection and surveillance available to the benevolent contemporary State and its always-virtuous outriders like Shelter, the Fabians etc

- owner-occupiers should pay 28% CGT, the same as landlords, and upgrade their properties to EPC Grade C by 2025, and have annual gas inspections etc

This is all just common sense for the common wealth and social justice.

Reply to the comment left by matchmade at 28/07/2023 - 11:31
I know this is intended as irony but suspect that the Fabian society, being radically left-wing, would be entirely happy for owner-occupiers to pay 28% CGT. Radical left-wingers believe that nobody should own anything anyway and they believe that the state, run by a small number of affluent autocrats who have the same totalitarian view that they do, should decide who lives where.

But nobody in any liberal democracy is ever going to vote for that. Stamp duty is already a tax on job mobility and the cost of moving house is often more than 1-2 years income net of salary. The idea that the UK would vote for capital gains tax on a principle private residence is a non-starter for any main stream party.

And for the rest of us the proposal that we should have to pay a tenant compensation before we move back into our own home is totally ridiculous.

“Simply put, landlords should bear the cost of the moves they cause – especially as they are likely to benefit substantially from it." An astonishingly naïve and ignorant statement.
I wonder if the Fabián Society also includes in its proposals those landlords evicting because they want to sell or move in as a result of financial desperation due to rent arrears or property trashing by the tenant, and where the LLs have no other means of evicting under the proposed legislation?

Anyone who thinks that the S8 grounds will cut it will be hostages to fortune.