Shelter warns of cost of living consequences

Would it kill Shelter to say: "It's important that landlords receive the rent that renters have agreed to pay. Landlords cannot be expected to pay their mortgages and provide for themselves whilst forgoing thousands of pounds of income indefinitely."?

"It’s time the government gave renters the financial lifeline they need by boosting support and reversing the damaging welfare cuts that have left people on the brink of destitution."
At last Shelter seem to have a grasp on the problem, realistic Housing Benefit combined with direct payment to landlords and much of the eviction crisis would disappear.

Over the past 10 years progressive governmnets have made it more and more complex in renting out property in the residential market. Add to that many of the councils have introduced licensing schemes to more and more properties which further costs landlords in money and time. Covid put a stop to evictions and although they have started again how long before S21 is scrapped as the government is proposing without giving landlords any guarantee that there will be an avenue to get tenants out should the landlord need to sell. All in all renting out property has become more and more complex and it's getting to the stage where there is little attraction to the single or few rental properties private landlords, it being only possibe to dedicated professional landlords with large property portfolios who can devote time and professionalism to the raft of legislation.
I see further deterioration and the private rental sector resulting in fewer properties becoming availalble. This will not help the housing crisis but just furher add to it in my opinion.

Chris Wood.

How long before these landlords who have lost rent over the past two years and others are prosecuted for condensation mould because tenants aren't heating and ventilating their homes? Shelter previously reported that because of high rents a third of tenants struggled to heat their homes but somehow this it is always the landlords' fault. No-one seems to put two and two together on this issue, except of course the landlord who has had experience of a succession of tenants in the affected property.

Reply to the comment left by Old Mrs Landlord at 11/02/2022 - 14:32
...and those 'claims' of mould etc are only going to get worse.,..to expensive to put the heating on and of course open the windows to let fresh air in isn't going to happen either...

It gets to something when you do a LL check and take photos of closed windows, elec and gas consumption reads ONLY to prove that the heating isn't being used and ventilation not taking place for fear of being accused of something you have absolutely no control over further down the line.

Reply to the comment left by Ian Narbeth at 11/02/2022 - 10:05
Great words again Ian.
I'll add mine here & don't mind anyone using 'em when talking to Shelter, Councils, Govt, MP etc.

This is nothing to Benefit landlords in Nottingham. I'd have a license to print money if I wasn't loyal to my tenants. I'm stuck with em for life. But I can't go on forever and the Govt & Councils instead of constantly attacking us with more regs and costs which then ends up in more expensive rent, should be coming to us and saying
Mick, what can we do for u that is going to make u not sell all your houses and what can we do to entice more landlords in as we in the crap here, our hostels are full too and not emptying.
We're sorry we wanted all your 50 year old houses to have New build standards, we din't realise that would result in impossible rents for benefit tenants.