• Intelligence compiled by councils suggests there are almost 32,000 unlicensed large houses in multiple occupation (HMOs), that home at least 159,340 tenants.
• Landlords have doubled their borrowing to invest in HMOs since 2018. A landlord renting to a single family can expect to generate 5% of the property’s value in annual rent, whereas a licensed HMO typically produces about 7.5%, and in some cases 10%.
• Income or profits of unlicensed bedsits are likely to be even higher, as landlords can cram in more tenants and do not have to comply with licensing standards.
• Based on local authority statistics submitted to the government between 2011 and 2022, the estimated number of larger hidden bedsits – those that accommodate more than five unrelated people sharing bathrooms and kitchens – has increased by 46% in the past 10 years in England.
• There is no oversight of occupancy rates, fire safety measures, or other living conditions in unlicensed shared properties.
Yet another problem that would be solved by building enough goddamn homes.
Cue the comments: “The UK is rich, rich, rich. We’re all *rich*, we are.”
The imagery and fantasies of Smaugian piles of gold, being used to deflect from the reality of “bedsit Britain: and crushing poverty for the unlucky, and a rat-race to avoid it, for most of the rest.
And the plebs will lap it up again.
So no how far away from Japanese tiny living do you think we are.
Refuse to build houses but imports 100s of thousands of people a year
Surprised pikachu face
Cue ‘oi mate’ joke.
> “It’s not just single adults. We see couples with babies living in single rooms in HMOs. It is not uncommon,” said Sarah Williams, Haringey’s cabinet member for housing. “It makes me very angry. The level of this problem needs central government intervention. We have to regulate and control the rental market.”
You make me very angry, Sarah Williams. I think a problem of your level needs peripheral individual intervention. You must be regulated and controlled.
Where would those tenants live, if not in unlicensed HMOs?
This is every bit a failing of the government as a failing of individual landlords.
Meanwhile, ten of thousands of people that have entered our country illegally are put up in 4* hotels and stately homes, given a weekly allowance and protection from prosecution, while British people are left to rot.
Welcome to modern Britain where Foreigners get preferential treatment and if you dare speak out about it, then you’re a racist.
160,000 sounds like figures from one borough in London. Surely it’s much higher.
We are a sinking ship bailing water onto its own decks.
I do not want to see Britain turned into Tokyo, I would like to keep a lot of our country green. Saying “build more houses” isn’t a good answer, especially when huge amounts of “new houses” are snapped up by foreign investors.
At this rate we’ll forever be playing catch up. We simply cannot build the houses fast enough to house our native population and the immigrants.
But apparently the chap fixing my photocopier said there were plenty of homes about. He doesn’t believe there is as issue..primarily because he is oerosbally sorted and does t go visiting bedsits. But hey ho.
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• Intelligence compiled by councils suggests there are almost 32,000 unlicensed large houses in multiple occupation (HMOs), that home at least 159,340 tenants.
• Landlords have doubled their borrowing to invest in HMOs since 2018. A landlord renting to a single family can expect to generate 5% of the property’s value in annual rent, whereas a licensed HMO typically produces about 7.5%, and in some cases 10%.
• Income or profits of unlicensed bedsits are likely to be even higher, as landlords can cram in more tenants and do not have to comply with licensing standards.
• Based on local authority statistics submitted to the government between 2011 and 2022, the estimated number of larger hidden bedsits – those that accommodate more than five unrelated people sharing bathrooms and kitchens – has increased by 46% in the past 10 years in England.
• There is no oversight of occupancy rates, fire safety measures, or other living conditions in unlicensed shared properties.
Yet another problem that would be solved by building enough goddamn homes.
Cue the comments: “The UK is rich, rich, rich. We’re all *rich*, we are.”
The imagery and fantasies of Smaugian piles of gold, being used to deflect from the reality of “bedsit Britain: and crushing poverty for the unlucky, and a rat-race to avoid it, for most of the rest.
And the plebs will lap it up again.
So no how far away from Japanese tiny living do you think we are.
Refuse to build houses but imports 100s of thousands of people a year
Surprised pikachu face
Cue ‘oi mate’ joke.
> “It’s not just single adults. We see couples with babies living in single rooms in HMOs. It is not uncommon,” said Sarah Williams, Haringey’s cabinet member for housing. “It makes me very angry. The level of this problem needs central government intervention. We have to regulate and control the rental market.”
You make me very angry, Sarah Williams. I think a problem of your level needs peripheral individual intervention. You must be regulated and controlled.
Where would those tenants live, if not in unlicensed HMOs?
This is every bit a failing of the government as a failing of individual landlords.
Meanwhile, ten of thousands of people that have entered our country illegally are put up in 4* hotels and stately homes, given a weekly allowance and protection from prosecution, while British people are left to rot.
Welcome to modern Britain where Foreigners get preferential treatment and if you dare speak out about it, then you’re a racist.
160,000 sounds like figures from one borough in London. Surely it’s much higher.
We are a sinking ship bailing water onto its own decks.
I do not want to see Britain turned into Tokyo, I would like to keep a lot of our country green. Saying “build more houses” isn’t a good answer, especially when huge amounts of “new houses” are snapped up by foreign investors.
At this rate we’ll forever be playing catch up. We simply cannot build the houses fast enough to house our native population and the immigrants.
But apparently the chap fixing my photocopier said there were plenty of homes about. He doesn’t believe there is as issue..primarily because he is oerosbally sorted and does t go visiting bedsits. But hey ho.