Our housing stock is so, so shit compared to where we should be as a successful and in demand global city.
Had a friend move over from Scandanavia last month and to see his absolute *horror* at doing a series of viewings across draughty old conversions, damp flatshares, and grotty council blocks was quite something.
We’re so used to it now that I just forget how poor the choice is most of the time.
Terrible news for lots of landlord MPs
Lets get the landlords’ response out of the way :
“yOu wILL ReGRet this WhEN THe cORporAte LaNDlords TAke Over FrOM us BEneVolent SamARitans”
I really do not understand how in a world where we have feedback and reviews for everything, the only website to check house reviews only have a 100 of them in the whole London.
why before moving it s so difficult to have the opinion of the previous tennants, it makes me mad, I have to choose my house based on a 10 minutes viewing, rushing, often finding bad surprises after signing the agreement.
we absolutely need a working platform to share feedback on houses and the renter union.
What about hmo? Cramming loads of ppl in one house?
What happens when the tenant refuses to open the window and worsens the moisture in the property and creates the underlying conditions for damp and mould – is that also the LL fault?
Good.
I’ve said this before but councils own housing stock looks like this. They don’t have a elf to stand on for enforcement when their own SLAs to “fix” can take years.
A slim minority of tenants have no clue how to ventilate a flat and prevent mould, and they refuse to change their behaviour even when it means living in filthÂ
You need to fully vent the whole place twice a day, and people dont do it because it means letting the warmth out.
How about if landlords are continually caught trying to rent out uninhabitable properties we take those properties away from them.Â
They’d need to crack down on the beds in sheds and ‘studio garages’ as well.
This is mainly down to big corporate landlords and housing associations.
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Our housing stock is so, so shit compared to where we should be as a successful and in demand global city.
Had a friend move over from Scandanavia last month and to see his absolute *horror* at doing a series of viewings across draughty old conversions, damp flatshares, and grotty council blocks was quite something.
We’re so used to it now that I just forget how poor the choice is most of the time.
Terrible news for lots of landlord MPs
Lets get the landlords’ response out of the way :
“yOu wILL ReGRet this WhEN THe cORporAte LaNDlords TAke Over FrOM us BEneVolent SamARitans”
I really do not understand how in a world where we have feedback and reviews for everything, the only website to check house reviews only have a 100 of them in the whole London.
why before moving it s so difficult to have the opinion of the previous tennants, it makes me mad, I have to choose my house based on a 10 minutes viewing, rushing, often finding bad surprises after signing the agreement.
we absolutely need a working platform to share feedback on houses and the renter union.
EDIT: this is the platform I found https://www.rateyourlandlord.org.uk/
What about hmo? Cramming loads of ppl in one house?
What happens when the tenant refuses to open the window and worsens the moisture in the property and creates the underlying conditions for damp and mould – is that also the LL fault?
Good.
I’ve said this before but councils own housing stock looks like this. They don’t have a elf to stand on for enforcement when their own SLAs to “fix” can take years.
https://preview.redd.it/mxtulu744s8g1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=90be7c401e13bf6710317467400f49f9a2c0b59e
Landlords are often uncaring and dodgy.
A slim minority of tenants have no clue how to ventilate a flat and prevent mould, and they refuse to change their behaviour even when it means living in filthÂ
You need to fully vent the whole place twice a day, and people dont do it because it means letting the warmth out.
How about if landlords are continually caught trying to rent out uninhabitable properties we take those properties away from them.Â
They’d need to crack down on the beds in sheds and ‘studio garages’ as well.
This is mainly down to big corporate landlords and housing associations.
Worst of the worst.
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