Increase in Homelessness

[Alex50]

This isn’t going to end well, AIBU the government should still block evictions for non rent payments

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53797657

Thatcher should never have brought in right to buy. It decimated social housing stock and needs to be stopped, and more social housing built. Perhaps people would be happy to rent if there was caps, if they had longer tenancies and more rights, if landlords were better regulated, and rents were affordable for retired people. None of those things currently apply and the current rental market isn’t fit for purpose. I agree not everyone wants to own a home and renting is useful for young adults working out where they want to live and developing their career, but as a long term option it’s not really benefitting anyone but landlords is it?

Thatcher should never have brought in right to buy looking back though it did give people who couldn’t have afforded to buy their home a leg up. I (fwiw) think the problem isn’t necessarily this, it’s that failure to replace ghe social housing that was taken out of commission by doing so

@Staringpoodleplottingrottie. @TeamWTF

I think one of the reasons for RTB was also because of the state of disrepair some public housing stock was in. It was cheaper to sell them than do them up. As well as the ideological reasons. RTB combined with the deregulation of credit in 1990s and Brown’s raid on pensions which both lead to the buy to let boom, is how we find ourselves where we are today.

If landlords can't evict tenants who don't pay/don't leave at the end of their tenancy then you strip out of the market all those landlords who are the spare capacity in the rental market - the people working abroad for a few months or moving in with a parent who has had a fall until they are better for example.

When I was renting every single one of my landlords fell into a category like this. I applied for but never got a whiff of social housing and that was years ago when things were arguably easier.

Those people will now not rent their properties out because the risk that they will not get them back when they need them is too great. Therefore there are fewer rental properties available. Do you really believe that social housing can accommodate everyone or that housing associations make great landlords? Looks like a massive miscalculation to me.

Do you really believe that social housing can accommodate everyone or that housing associations make great landlords? no, not at all - I’d even go so far as to say they shouldn’t (how else will the footballers by me rent their bling pads?). What I would say though is that their should be sufficient social housing stock or housing stock at an accessible level giving secure tenancies for the non anti social tenants. @TazMac it’s much more likely to be a combination of factors than 1 in isolation yes

My first sentence is in response to the first half of the quote. Obviously HA should be good LL

Help to Buy (or Help to Build, if you believe it has benefitted the Developers by inflating prices) is yet another prop. I don’t know where it is going to end but I think if we don’t see a fall in prices in the next 6-12 months then I don’t know when we will.

If you need HTB to sell homes surely that means they’re way overpriced?

@TeamWTF

Exactly. Another bung from the government to big business, at tax payers expense. Call it the middle class version of housing benefit.