4d ago

Homelessness minister threw out her tenants - then increased rent by £700 a month

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4d ago

Homelessness minister threw out her tenants - then increased rent by £700 a month

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4d ago

Homelessness minister threw out her tenants - then increased rent by £700 a month

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4d ago

Homelessness minister threw out her tenants - then increased rent by £700 a month

inews.co.uk /news/homelessness-minister-threw-out-tenants-increased-rent-3846449

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homelessness minister
well yes she's making people homeless, job well done
- Damnit. Beat me to it. But the joke basically wrote itself so.. :D
Maybe she misunderstood and didn’t realize she’s supposed to reduce homelessness.
- Yes, but if she doesn't keep making more people homeless she'll be out of a job!
  
  Then she’ll be homeless! Which increases homelessness numbers! So they’ll have to give her a job again. But then she won’t be homeless anymore.
- Turkeys don't vote for Christmas.
- keeping herself in a job
Minister for homelessness, previous experiences appreciated.
All landlords are bastards.
- I own two properties that I let out. I never cheat my tenants, it's bad for business. So (though I hate to put it like this): not all landlords.
  Only 99%.
  
  All means all, fuck you.
  
  Lemmy usees hate you for it but they can't imagine someone just temporarily needing to rent a place instead of buying it and being stuck there. It's a logical exchange between a homeowner and a (temporary) home seeker so please ignore the hate hahaha.
This is a tough one. First, I don't think MPs shoupd be landlords, but:
She wanted to sell the house
She waited until the renters contract expired
She did offer a rolling contract to the current renters at their existing rent until the house sold
They declined
She put the house on the market and opened it up to any short-term renters who wanted to stay there while it was on the market
She listed it for current going rate
Someone took it
The house is still for sale.
To me, there isn't much wrong with that, what is wrong is:
She didn't wait 6 months. Not only is this terrible, but the optics are horrible and she should know that
She is using a tenant agency that tried to charge them a ton of move-out fees (She did have them canceled)
And..
She's the HOMELESSNESS MINISTER?!?! Sheash.
Edit: Some additional context from UK peoples - some letting agencies will relist your home without telling you. Fun stuff.
My landlord did this. He said he wanted to sell the place, then rented it again at a way higher price. Very illegal, but I moved out of the city - hard to do small claims from so far away.
Labour party lmao
- They should rebrand to the “Work or Starve” party.
  
  Or Work And Still Starve at the rate they're going
FIY, the Minister's party (Labour) is currently pushing a law to increase tenants' rights, including preventing this exact situation from happening, which makes the whole situation even more ridiculous and hypocritical.
Labour’s Renters’ Rights Bill, which will become law next year, prohibits landlords who have ended a tenancy in order to sell a property from relisting it for higher rent until at least six months after tenants have moved out.
- Labour is a deeply unserious party that is trying to revert to Blairism. They want to look like they are doing something, but don't actually want to change anything.
- It’s also the party who willingly sent hundreds of thousands of disabled people including children into poverty. So not too off brand either.
  
  This implies Tories are any better
- Is she trying to get in on this before the law passes?
- Sounds better than nothing but why even make it legal to evict tenants to sell a place in the first place?
Always a nice change of pace seeing terrible politicians from outside the US. Terrible for our outlook as a species, but a nice change of scenery none the less.
update: this article caused her to resign from her Ministerial position the next day.
Look up France-Élaine Duranceau, minister of housing in Québec, Canada. Another fine example.
- yep, she's completely disconnected from reality. She bought her 700k$ house cash at like 30 something, cannot understand why people does not invest in real estate. She would be the one saying "are you trying not being poor?"
  
  She will say "try not being poor"?
what a cunt
Look... If you own housing with the express purpose of using it as a means of income or financial gain/stability then you're objectively a piece of human shit.
- Same if you sell food.
Incredible. In the worst way.
- Seems pretty credible to me.
Guess she meant something different with "unreasonable rent increases".
Awful, but unfortunately happens a lot.
I bought my home two years ago in anticipation of my now former landlord selling the building, which he did last year. I didn't want to get priced out of living in the place I wanted to be.
LANDLORDS ARE NOT HUMAN.
- Just like billionaires! They are all wastes of oxygen
SMH.

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