Weren’t they the cunts that voted against making rented properties fit to live in?
Reminder that in the summer of 2017 Parliament had a vote on whether to set specific rules/regulations to require private landlords make their properties “fit for human habitation”.
219 MPs voted in favour of this.
312 voted against it.
All 312 of those MPs were tories.
Working class people please just take a breath and look around. Tories do _not_ care about you. Vote for quite literally _anyone_ else. Please for the love of God stop thinking that these tubby rich blue blooded twats give a toss about you or your family.
If we’re going to keep landlords they need to be heavily regulated and rents capped hard to ease the cost of living crisis the country is experiencing.
As a past renter this isn’t surprising in the least
Not surprised, moreover, whenever you report an issue to the estate agents they just claim it’s your issue to resolve… absolute disgrace that these people privileged enough to own multiple properties so much so that they have to have businesses manage their properties for them, essentially force their residents to pay for the repairs of a breaking down home with the big powerful tool of eviction, if they fail to comply.
Insane.
I would be interested to see how many privately owned/occupied homes in the UK would meet the same criteria. Maybe not as many, but I bet a surprising amount will pose a similar threat to health.
Until you match all dwellings, there is little perspective on that one in eight figure.
My guess is that there is a hell of a lot of houses owned by older / retired people that wouldn’t meet the current minimum rental standard because maintenance has been neglected over the years.
This is why the article from the other day about landlords needing a licence makes so much sense. Landlords found renting out such accommodation could be stripped of that licence and be placed on a blacklist to stop them renting properties in the future. Landlords are not going away and renting is only set to become the norm, this means making the system work for tenants and not landlords.
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Weren’t they the cunts that voted against making rented properties fit to live in?
Reminder that in the summer of 2017 Parliament had a vote on whether to set specific rules/regulations to require private landlords make their properties “fit for human habitation”.
219 MPs voted in favour of this.
312 voted against it.
All 312 of those MPs were tories.
Working class people please just take a breath and look around. Tories do _not_ care about you. Vote for quite literally _anyone_ else. Please for the love of God stop thinking that these tubby rich blue blooded twats give a toss about you or your family.
If we’re going to keep landlords they need to be heavily regulated and rents capped hard to ease the cost of living crisis the country is experiencing.
As a past renter this isn’t surprising in the least
Not surprised, moreover, whenever you report an issue to the estate agents they just claim it’s your issue to resolve… absolute disgrace that these people privileged enough to own multiple properties so much so that they have to have businesses manage their properties for them, essentially force their residents to pay for the repairs of a breaking down home with the big powerful tool of eviction, if they fail to comply.
Insane.
I would be interested to see how many privately owned/occupied homes in the UK would meet the same criteria. Maybe not as many, but I bet a surprising amount will pose a similar threat to health.
Until you match all dwellings, there is little perspective on that one in eight figure.
My guess is that there is a hell of a lot of houses owned by older / retired people that wouldn’t meet the current minimum rental standard because maintenance has been neglected over the years.
This is why the article from the other day about landlords needing a licence makes so much sense. Landlords found renting out such accommodation could be stripped of that licence and be placed on a blacklist to stop them renting properties in the future. Landlords are not going away and renting is only set to become the norm, this means making the system work for tenants and not landlords.