All well and good. What about people who don’t rent, we are still struggling too.
copying what RoI did last month. only real solution to this is councils and government building houses to demographic demand. they arent going to tax new houses into existance.
reading comments on that site bragging about hiking rent as hard and fast as they can sickens me.
total and complete scabs banging on about market forces in a completely controlled market closed off from market forces. then crying that they might have to sell a property they make money on, getting back the over-inflated cost of the house that the tennant has been paying the mortgage on.
utterly revolting.
How do they determine when the cost of living crisis has ended? This seems to just be an incentive for everyone else to put prices up, knowing that tenants aren’t also factoring rent into the picture.
Some of the comments saying “what do you expect landlords to do, sell?”
YUP.
The real solution would be to build more social housing, build more housing overall to get house prices to drop to a reasonable level so that working class people don’t have to rely on landlords and introduce a tax to those that own 1+ properties.
But of course that will never happen in a country where the economy is propped up by the housing market.
What people often forget is following the end of a rent freeze, rents are likely to shoot up to make up for the inability to increase it during the freeze itself.
It seems like a good idea, but can actually end up hurting the people it’s meant to help in the long run.
Source – I’m in Scotland, and this has literally just happened to me. Following Covid rent freeze, on the very first day he could, my landlord informed me my rent would be increasing by the maximum legal amount.
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I wouldn’t get your hopes up…
[https://www.landlordtoday.co.uk/breaking-news/2021/7/revealed–how-many-mps-are-landlords](https://www.landlordtoday.co.uk/breaking-news/2021/7/revealed–how-many-mps-are-landlords)
All well and good. What about people who don’t rent, we are still struggling too.
copying what RoI did last month. only real solution to this is councils and government building houses to demographic demand. they arent going to tax new houses into existance.
reading comments on that site bragging about hiking rent as hard and fast as they can sickens me.
total and complete scabs banging on about market forces in a completely controlled market closed off from market forces. then crying that they might have to sell a property they make money on, getting back the over-inflated cost of the house that the tennant has been paying the mortgage on.
utterly revolting.
How do they determine when the cost of living crisis has ended? This seems to just be an incentive for everyone else to put prices up, knowing that tenants aren’t also factoring rent into the picture.
Some of the comments saying “what do you expect landlords to do, sell?”
YUP.
The real solution would be to build more social housing, build more housing overall to get house prices to drop to a reasonable level so that working class people don’t have to rely on landlords and introduce a tax to those that own 1+ properties.
But of course that will never happen in a country where the economy is propped up by the housing market.
What people often forget is following the end of a rent freeze, rents are likely to shoot up to make up for the inability to increase it during the freeze itself.
It seems like a good idea, but can actually end up hurting the people it’s meant to help in the long run.
Source – I’m in Scotland, and this has literally just happened to me. Following Covid rent freeze, on the very first day he could, my landlord informed me my rent would be increasing by the maximum legal amount.