From London Renters Union
Rising rents destroy our communities. The government is more interested in building expensive flats than stopping the rent hikes. Tenants in Europe are taking action and winning. Now, we must take to the streets to demand housing justice!
If you can't afford the rent in Brent meet other London Renters Union members and supporters at the 98 bus stop at Willesden Bus Garage on Pound Lane for the bus to central London at 10.30am.
9 comments:
It's not the government building expensive flats it's the mega rich property developers who themselves live in tiny villages away from our polluted cities.
But landlords of ordinary rented homes are using the high rents charged by property developers, such as Quintain at Wembley Park, as a reason to impose large rent increases for the properties they own in Brent. Rent controls are needed urgently.
Mortgages, buildings insurance, landlord insurance etc have gone up and all Brent landlords, except in Wembley Park, now have to pay for a landlord licence.
"Risk to renters as buy-to-let lending predicted to fall"
BBC News - Risk to renters as buy-to-let lending predicted to fall - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7ver9z38vjo
Rent controls are a simplistic idea and would not work. Rent rises are subject to normal supply and demand conditions and at present demand outstrips supply. If you have a 3 bed house worth £500,000 you could generate a rent of around £2,000 month or £24,000 a year and pay out the costs of maintenance, insurance and repairs and now licence fees and all the other compliance costs out of that. If you sell the House and put the £500,000 on deposit you could currently earn up to 5% interest of £25,000 a year with no other additional costs and hassle of renting. Imposing rent controls and even more bureaucracy on landlords will only drive them away and reduce the supply even further. The better way is to support renters through the benefit system by increasing the London Housing allowance which has been frozen for over 10 years.
My parents had to move to an area where they could afford the rent and both worked really hard to pay the rent - there weren't any housing benefits available to them.
Neither the government nor the council can afford to subsidise renters further!
Won't increasing the London Housing Allowance just encourage landlords to increase rents even more???
Don't want my taxes paying off Landlords' mortgages and making them rich through the benefits system. I work hard. My neighbours receive housing benefit to pay their private landlord. My neighbours are antisocial. They drink and take drugs. They work part time. They should move to an area where can afford to live (even if that means outside London). The idea that people like them should be entitled to more of my taxes makes my blood boil. Feel sorry for their children but then they should not have kids if they cannot afford them.
And guess they only work part time because they'd loose their benefits if they work full time???
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