From Living Rent: Yesterday, a report came out that showed that low and middle income families in the UK were nearly 40% worse off than their European counterparts. Continued in comment:
by ewenmax
From Living Rent: Yesterday, a report came out that showed that low and middle income families in the UK were nearly 40% worse off than their European counterparts. Continued in comment:
by ewenmax
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Cont’d: ‘This is not due to wages, or the cost of food or energy. The reason why UK families are so much worse off is due to the sky high cost of housing. This isn’t a surprise for any of us.
Housing across the UK is 44% more expensive than in Europe. In Scotland, landlords have increased rents 11% above inflation over the last fourteen years.
No one’s wages have increased anywhere near as high as rent. No one can afford this.’
‘Right now, the Scottish government is debating the Housing Bill, which, if passed, has the potential to deliver rent controls across Scotland. But landlords are using all their power to sway politicians to water down the bill. They know that this bill has the power to seriously harm their profits and they are doing all they can to make rent controls as ineffective as possible. ‘
Click the header and fill in the survey if you’re affected by a threatened rent increase or have been forced to live with disrepair or been threatened with eviction.
The more voices added to the housing bill debate the better. When folk are spending the majority of their income on rent the game’s a bogey.
You know what has made housing problems worse everywhere it has been implemented for the past century?
Rent Controls.
You know whose predictions on the effects of the last set of rent controls where entirely wrong?
Living Rent.
You know who cannot point to a single working example of Rent Control anywhere in the world?
Living Rent.
Rent Controls are well understood and taught in every economics course in the country. They do not work.
Listening to LR on this is like listening to anti vaxxers or climate deniers- it requires a near total rejection of the expert consensus going back decades and the practical examples of more than a century.
The only solution to the housing crisis is to increase supply. RCs does not do this- quite the opposite. The current bill will be a disaster if implemented.
I’d really recommend anyone here to sign up: [Join Living Rent](https://www.livingrent.org/)
I used to be a member for a few years while I lived in Scotland (an active member in both Glasgow and Edinburgh) and it was one of the best decisions I’ve made; lots of important info on your rights, a good community, and a lot of support if you have issues with your landlord and repairs/deposit/rent/evictions.
Most politicians are also landlords, worth bearing in mind
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