Nearly two-thirds of working private renters in England struggle to pay rent

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1. Worst part is that the mortgage for the property would cost you less. 

2. what annoys me is how in the UK, renters are fucked over left right and center , we never ever talk about it and Baz down the pub insists that it’s so hard being a landlord even though we have some of the most anti tenant, pro landlord rules in europe.

   idk about you guys but one things that depresses me about labour ir their total lack of communication with renters, we’re their fucking voting base. Instead it’s “deregulation deregulation deregulation”. Which is just gonna lead to more swarths of shitty houses that will be unlivable in a decade or two that no one can afford to live in except those who are already home owners..

3. The storage company I’m using has increased their monthly fees by 40% in 3 years, which they in essence justified as “because they can”.

   And my landlord is increasing my rent twice as much as inflation.

4. And yet housing policies still prioritize landlords over tenants. Time for real reform!

5. Remember how the financial crisis was caused by mortgage debt.

   If this many people are forced into debt, and cannot pay, it’s the same end result.

6. Yet the rent gets paid and is increasing in most parts of the country? When is this tipping point coming? We’ve been told this for about 10 years now.

7. It comes as absolutely no surprise really…… a 3 bedroom semi detatched near me will set you back between £1100 – £1200 per month in rent, thats fucking insane ! it’s not a nice area either, a dingy town in the north of england.

   Housing will be the straw that breaks the camels back in the economy, it’s the largest payment in most peoples lives and we cant escape it. We are locked in by design, and we have far less to show for all our hard work than our parents did.

   I know people will bring up how it’s so much cheaper to get a mortgage, BUT it’s almost impossible to get a mortgage on your own these days, so you are kinda stuck renting unless you have a partner.

8. I don’t struggle to pay rent. I struggle to live when that money is paid

9. I got a £16 a month pay rise this year and my land lord gave me a £70 a month rent increase! 🫡

10. Please, please use your brain, Reddit.

    This is a poll commissioned by Shelter to support its fundraising.

    It is very likely to have been manipulated to produce an exaggerated result that supports Shelter’s efforts.

    If you want to know how easy it is to do that, see classic British comedy Yes Minister:

    https://youtu.be/ahgjEjJkZks?si=CzDciq3TNgwxjEYp

11. Well maybe we should hurry up and build them some homes… Cmon Labour, do the thing, get rid of the planning things crippling the nation.

12. “We should increase taxes on landlords, that will have no effect on anyone else”

13. Wouldn’t be this bad if we still had publicly owned housing to set the standard.

14. We’ve treat housing as a commodity for far too long. The fact that we’ve sold off 2 million council homes since the introduction of the RTB scheme, says everything about this country.

15. The conversation needs to be drawn back to the addition of 1 million persons per year to the country, if it not then the conversation is pointless.

    We have a housing shortage and accommodation shortage, if we keep adding a small city’s worth of people each year of course rent is going to go up.

    This is a result of the immigration crises through and through.

    Guardian will never address the root cause however

16. I’m lucky, my mortgage is £360 a month, although this will go up to around £500 a month or so in a years time.

    I bought 10 years ago.

    If I tried to buy today I wouldn’t be able to afford where I live now. If I wanted to rent the equivalent it would be around £1000 a month, which I also wouldn’t be able to afford.

    Sorting out affordable housing has to be the #1 priority for the UK. It is a political choice that we are in this situation.

    The elderly in this country are eating the young.

17. Which is why the economy is fucked. If all people’s income goes to housing and food they’re essentially economically dormant

18. Rent extractors are an underrated problem with the UK economy.

    We basically have people who own assets essential to the function of society, who add no actual worth to that asset, but use it to extract decent amounts of wealth from others who are actually doing something productive.

    Energy is a big one, same with other utilities, obviously property is a big one but retail landlording is just as big of an issue.

    We really need some government intervention on this, rent extractors really don’t produce anything for the economy and they stifle productivity by charging money for nothing, purely due to them owning something.

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