Problem is a lot of people do not ventilate properly. Even when it’s freezing cold outside, windows need to be opened every now and then to let fresh air in.
I’m sure the Tories have plans to make a law that requires homes to be inhabitable. Oh what’s that ? They voted it down ?
Tories will just make it illegal to report on these. Problem solved.
I know reddit hates anything other than the “evil tories dun it” however, aren’t local authority homes run by whatever council is in charge in the local area? Some are even run by housing associations which aren’t political.
People with houses like this really need to buy a dehumidifier. It’s a problem with flats and having to dry clothes inside during winter when there’s no ventilation. unless there is a leaking pipe or something, it’s a really easy solution.
That is fucking awful – wtaf.
Stop voting in useless cunts just cos of the badge they wear please!!
Is part of the problem that a lot of buildings are built with concrete?
I’m living in a Scottish council flat, it’s actually not too bad but there is one concrete wall in my room that has no protective cladding or anything on the outside, so mould can form on that wall when the weather is particularly cold and wet (so every winter). We run a dehumidifier 24/7.
Is this a problem in say, Scandinavia where most houses are built out of wood?
I dunno, I’m clueless. I just wonder if our buildings are universally shit, or if it’s just a cost-cutting exercise to use concrete in residential homes when it’s not the most suitable material.
There are molds that get into your lungs and that is just the beginning of a slow gruesome death … but sure, allow the poors to live in such and you’ll be rid of your poors in a few ugly-diseased filled years.
You have to be a morally decrepit piece of human garbage to vote tories after they continually do everything they can to screw the most vulnerable in society for their own personal gain.
I literally cannot fathom what would need to go wrong in someone’s life for them to read something like this, the corruption with covid funds etc and not be infuriated.
Been following ITV news investigations into this for a while. Shameful the way tenants are ignored until suddenly when the news team turn up, they’re all mealy mouthed.
Some tenants been in horrific conditions for years, with the only response from the landlord to be letters telling of rent increases.
And no – for the apologists in here, the ceilings destroyed by leaky pipes and sewerage coming into kitchens through broken soil pipe runs is not going to be fixed by opening a window for a bit.
There is little to nothing poor folk can do when they find themselves in poor quality and unsafe council or housing association accommodation. Sometimes the local government ombudsman will listen to complaints that have been through the council’s internal complaints procedure. But what does the LGO do to benefit a tenant in housing that is harming their health. Well I can speak from experience and say not a lot. I can look at the LGO website and say on behalf of quite a lot of complainants/ Not a lot.
Doctors can write letters to the council on behalf of their patients and they can say mould in their patients home is killing them slowly. They can write and say that living next door to a raver is not a safe place for an autistic to continue living as it causes meltdowns which in turn are causing head injuries and migraines. In response the council can say so what or okay we will move the tenant. But chances are even if they don’t ignore doctors and MP and so on…a move isn’t going to happen for a long time anyway.
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There simply aren’t enough council houses available for the council to act with any speed or sense of urgency. Even when there is a need to do something to help as of yesterday. They just can’t. So tenants end up stuck in some horrible conditions for what can be a long long time. Even someone in band 1 with an urgent need to move probably won’t find a suitable property for months and months if not longer. Some people wait years to get their council house. And some probably get ill lose the will to fight and never move out.
I still want a reality TV show where landlords who own these properties are forced to live in them for six months or so, while living on their tenants’ budget with no extra help too. Maybe they might realise how cruel they are being if they are forced to live as their tenants do for a bit.
Would be better off making your own the old way from your local materials, less likely to go moldy and atleast you can have a fireplace and burn wood to keep warm.
This is why we need a “nanny state”, to sort out avoidable mould, damp and other infestations.
Fucking councils. I bought a flat with ever last penny I had. It was fucked. There were, literally, mushrooms growing out of the walls.
To say it was damp would be a huge understatement.
The pipes in the walls had leaked, there was a leak through the ceiling and the pipes under the floor had also been blown.
I emailed the council asking if this made the place uninhabitable. Just asked.
Didn’t hear a thing back until a few months later when they demanded full council tax.
When I asked why I wasn’t getting a 25% single persons discount, they said that I had told them it was uninhabited, and therefore, “one” person wasn’t living there, “zero” people were, and as such no discount could be awarded.
I replied that I hadn’t said it was uninhabited, and that I had simply asked what the rules were and what constituted an uninhabitable property.
This all took 6 months, then one day, out of the blue, some lady from the council arrived, saw the state of the place, and considered it habitable (which in this instance did me a favour), but there was no heating, no running water, every door frame was rotten (as were the doors, but I had already removed them at this point), a single sofa, bare concrete floors and mould and damp everywhere in every room – like every wall and ceiling, some walls were back to bare brick where the plaster had just given up any pretence of structural integrity.
I was in the flat, working on it, in a full extraction mask as she arrived.
The electric worked, and therefore, I could have installed an electric camping stove.
They considered that, “habitable”.
I made the choice to buy it like that (well, I couldn’t afford anything else, and I figured I could learn plumbing etc…on YouTube!). I can’t imagine how soul destroying it would be to be paying a landlord for the “right” to live somewhere like that.
I work for my local council and all I’ll say is I understand very much why people consider them a waste of space
England gave the tories a massive majority. Reap what you sow.
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Problem is a lot of people do not ventilate properly. Even when it’s freezing cold outside, windows need to be opened every now and then to let fresh air in.
I’m sure the Tories have plans to make a law that requires homes to be inhabitable. Oh what’s that ? They voted it down ?
Tories will just make it illegal to report on these. Problem solved.
I know reddit hates anything other than the “evil tories dun it” however, aren’t local authority homes run by whatever council is in charge in the local area? Some are even run by housing associations which aren’t political.
People with houses like this really need to buy a dehumidifier. It’s a problem with flats and having to dry clothes inside during winter when there’s no ventilation. unless there is a leaking pipe or something, it’s a really easy solution.
That is fucking awful – wtaf.
Stop voting in useless cunts just cos of the badge they wear please!!
Is part of the problem that a lot of buildings are built with concrete?
I’m living in a Scottish council flat, it’s actually not too bad but there is one concrete wall in my room that has no protective cladding or anything on the outside, so mould can form on that wall when the weather is particularly cold and wet (so every winter). We run a dehumidifier 24/7.
Is this a problem in say, Scandinavia where most houses are built out of wood?
I dunno, I’m clueless. I just wonder if our buildings are universally shit, or if it’s just a cost-cutting exercise to use concrete in residential homes when it’s not the most suitable material.
There are molds that get into your lungs and that is just the beginning of a slow gruesome death … but sure, allow the poors to live in such and you’ll be rid of your poors in a few ugly-diseased filled years.
You have to be a morally decrepit piece of human garbage to vote tories after they continually do everything they can to screw the most vulnerable in society for their own personal gain.
I literally cannot fathom what would need to go wrong in someone’s life for them to read something like this, the corruption with covid funds etc and not be infuriated.
Been following ITV news investigations into this for a while. Shameful the way tenants are ignored until suddenly when the news team turn up, they’re all mealy mouthed.
Some tenants been in horrific conditions for years, with the only response from the landlord to be letters telling of rent increases.
And no – for the apologists in here, the ceilings destroyed by leaky pipes and sewerage coming into kitchens through broken soil pipe runs is not going to be fixed by opening a window for a bit.
There is little to nothing poor folk can do when they find themselves in poor quality and unsafe council or housing association accommodation. Sometimes the local government ombudsman will listen to complaints that have been through the council’s internal complaints procedure. But what does the LGO do to benefit a tenant in housing that is harming their health. Well I can speak from experience and say not a lot. I can look at the LGO website and say on behalf of quite a lot of complainants/ Not a lot.
Doctors can write letters to the council on behalf of their patients and they can say mould in their patients home is killing them slowly. They can write and say that living next door to a raver is not a safe place for an autistic to continue living as it causes meltdowns which in turn are causing head injuries and migraines. In response the council can say so what or okay we will move the tenant. But chances are even if they don’t ignore doctors and MP and so on…a move isn’t going to happen for a long time anyway.
​
There simply aren’t enough council houses available for the council to act with any speed or sense of urgency. Even when there is a need to do something to help as of yesterday. They just can’t. So tenants end up stuck in some horrible conditions for what can be a long long time. Even someone in band 1 with an urgent need to move probably won’t find a suitable property for months and months if not longer. Some people wait years to get their council house. And some probably get ill lose the will to fight and never move out.
I still want a reality TV show where landlords who own these properties are forced to live in them for six months or so, while living on their tenants’ budget with no extra help too. Maybe they might realise how cruel they are being if they are forced to live as their tenants do for a bit.
Would be better off making your own the old way from your local materials, less likely to go moldy and atleast you can have a fireplace and burn wood to keep warm.
This is why we need a “nanny state”, to sort out avoidable mould, damp and other infestations.
Fucking councils. I bought a flat with ever last penny I had. It was fucked. There were, literally, mushrooms growing out of the walls.
To say it was damp would be a huge understatement.
The pipes in the walls had leaked, there was a leak through the ceiling and the pipes under the floor had also been blown.
I emailed the council asking if this made the place uninhabitable. Just asked.
Didn’t hear a thing back until a few months later when they demanded full council tax.
When I asked why I wasn’t getting a 25% single persons discount, they said that I had told them it was uninhabited, and therefore, “one” person wasn’t living there, “zero” people were, and as such no discount could be awarded.
I replied that I hadn’t said it was uninhabited, and that I had simply asked what the rules were and what constituted an uninhabitable property.
This all took 6 months, then one day, out of the blue, some lady from the council arrived, saw the state of the place, and considered it habitable (which in this instance did me a favour), but there was no heating, no running water, every door frame was rotten (as were the doors, but I had already removed them at this point), a single sofa, bare concrete floors and mould and damp everywhere in every room – like every wall and ceiling, some walls were back to bare brick where the plaster had just given up any pretence of structural integrity.
I was in the flat, working on it, in a full extraction mask as she arrived.
The electric worked, and therefore, I could have installed an electric camping stove.
They considered that, “habitable”.
I made the choice to buy it like that (well, I couldn’t afford anything else, and I figured I could learn plumbing etc…on YouTube!). I can’t imagine how soul destroying it would be to be paying a landlord for the “right” to live somewhere like that.
I work for my local council and all I’ll say is I understand very much why people consider them a waste of space
England gave the tories a massive majority. Reap what you sow.