Renters Reform Bill unfairly targeting landlords!

Exactly.

The housing crisis is caused by too many people chasing too few homes. This is despite house building being quite prolific over the last decade or two and the birth rate dropping.

There are many reasons.

Number 1 must be the number of asylum seekers, economic migrants coming to the U.K. The numbers are far greater than the number of people leaving the country. I don’t blame people for leaving poorer countries to seek a better life in the U.K. but it cannot continue indefinitely.

Quite why the government chooses not to protect our country from this influx is quite bewildering. We don’t have sufficient homes, the NHS is unsustainably expensive, the Victorian sewer infrastructure simply wasn’t designed for this number of people. The list goes on.

Another significant reason is that people are living longer, often in houses way larger than their needs. Great grandparents used to be a rarity.

The third significant reason is that people choose to live separately. Whether it’s the pressures of modern life or the improved benefits available to single mums and dads that leads to so many people choosing to live in smaller households, something needs to be done to fix the problem. HMOs may be the answer but personally, I don’t like them.

Whatever the problem(s), it is not the PRS that caused them and it is not the PRS that can fix them.

We have the least patriotic government (and government in waiting) of any time in our history.

It will end badly.

The fundamental issue is population growth and if you look at the ONS statistics, that are generally well thought of, you can clearly see that most of the growth relates to migration. It isn't just asylum seekers - the government has done little to control the numbers of people coming here from wherever in the mistaken belief (first advocated by Tony Blair) that an increase in the population equals growth in the economy and greater wealth for everyone. However, the GDP per person is much the same now as it was 20 years ago, so that theory is hooey!

Reply to the comment left by Martin Thomas at 07/05/2024 - 11:04Displacement conspiracy truth? I think it was in 2018 that many countries adopted a UN proposal to regularise the bass people movement it predicted, we are paying for our own destruction, it's cultural Marxism strategy.

The full system is geared up to penalise landlords for failing policies blame game , courts, councils, all looking to catch landlords out in every legal requirement no matter how trivial and only going to get worse under liebor , l have sold one and have kept a open mind on my others if it goes has l predict these will be sold .

Aah no, we han't got to do all new tenancies have we. I've been ignoring this Renters Reform bill, as they constantly changing it.

But if all need new tenancies, this could be the final straw for me. All my tenants that can't get anywhere, they gonna have to sign up with Letting Agent to make sure all my paperwork 2024 compliant. I can't keep up with it any more. We were all fine.
They gonna have to pay the increased cost of Letting Agent fee from their too cheap rent now.
And many of mine not paid deposit years ago, or a £300 Rent up front, when now we'd need £1800ish. I can't keep subsidising em forever and Govt are now making it more expensive for many tenants. Another example of Govt interference when nothing was going wrong.

Hi everyone,
Yes indeed, the government has 'invited ' hundreds of thousands of people from o/seas to come and work in the 'care sectors.. So where are there good people and their families going to live? I don't see then 'sleeping in the trees or under lorries', so either there's a lot of illegal unregistered landlords have sprung into existence, or demand and rents from decent landlords will go up! The only way to prevent rogue landlords is for :
1. Solicitors to ask for HMRC tax/overseas tax numbers to advise the tax authorities in the relevant countries that a property has been bought to let , - this is not hard to do

AND A national register for landlords with compliance to safety regulations obligation.... no registration - no legal tenancy and anyone entering this country should be given the basic letting regulations and their rights as easily and clearly as they receive the duty free allowances....

AND 'confiscation of properties' illegally let - with no appeal - introduced as a penalty, with the properties being given to the local council to do as they wish with them.

AND Renters on benefits of any kind - the rent is paid directly from the providers to the landlords - I ask myself how much rent fraud is committed permitted by the benefits system through renters not passing on the rent element to the landlords because they know they will get off scott free?

Well, that's my starter for 10 anyway....

As a decent landlord I am fed up being treated as worthless and less than human - the police will not help me, the council will not help me, the rogue tenant isn't forced to give D.O.B. for help from U.C. and forwarding address for court claims.

This country is already a haven for rogue tenants and debtors and with this Reform Bill makes it even more so.

If 10% of all the decent landlords threw in the towel tomorrow - either all this government will have created is another 10% rogue landlords or 10% more people to be house by the local councils.

I look forward to any comments