Surge in tenants asking to be made homeless

10 comments

1. They’ll really find out how little councils will help and how they weed out the blaggers by putting them in B&Bs for months to see if they don’t stay there

2. – £30 24hr Gym Membership.
   – AirBnB Account for when you need a place to stay.
   – Tent in the city.

   Slightly more attractive than paying £6k pcm for a storage cupboard that the landlord’s put a bucket in and a sole pillow to sleep on.

3. On a landlord group. It’s definitely becoming more common.

   Plenty of them have said the tenants are begging them to give them a section 21 so they arnt making themselves voluntarily homeless.

   Courts ending up taking ages to process the eviction and then the landlord will have to pay for the eviction process too. Some of the landlords are saying the tenants are threatening to not pay rent if they don’t issue a section 21. Seems people are trying to game the system.

   I’m all for stricter rules on landlords but there definitely needs to be a list of some sort for problem tenants. I think it’s unacceptable to “pretend” your landlord is forcing you out to get on a housing list… And I’m pretty sure there is a law against that

4. The article states that homeless people get put in emergency accommodation. At least for me as a single young man with no kids this was not the case, they did literally nothing

5. No surprise. Currently my rent is about 50% of my take home pay due to landlord raising rent. What’s worse is that I’m in a crap houseshare. Thankfully I don’t have children otherwise I wouldn’t survive. I can’t blame people trying to get a council property, at least its long term and affordable.

6. The biggest issue here isn’t the tenants. It’s not the landlords either. It’s the lack of social housing built after the right to buy scheme.

   Basic human need is a home. Yet we’re pricing them like a luxury. Something needs to change.

7. Interesting to see this get coverage, it’s been known for years. Other way is to pretend you’ve got an abusive environment at home

8. About to be made homeless, this worries me if there isn’t gonna be emergency accommodation available

9. Since their source in this is an organisation called ‘Landlord Action’, and the conclusion they seems to be intending to point the reader towards is ‘it’s too easy to get council house [lol] more people should be forced into the private rental sector’, I’m going to assume this is horseshit.

10. It’s easier to get sacked then leave your job. If sacked, the job centre has to try. Leave? Your own fault. How I survived 2 very bad jobs.