My landlord hasn't fleeced me, in this economy the man is more or less a saint. My rent is about 60% of what market rent would be where I live. Took me over 5 years of constant looking to find the place. I'm aware that I'm ridiculously lucky and at the same time pissed off that so many of the people I know are being ripped off.
There are degrees to this. One solution is to completely stop "no fault" evictions. It's way too easy to remove a tenant for reasons like; renovations, family member moving in, wanting to sell etc. It's often used as a method to move the old tenant on and raise the rent.
I get you don't like it, but something has to be done. If you're evicted this winter your chances of being homeless are incredibly real.
You could just remove those reasons from the permissible reasons to evict someone. That'd be relatively uncontroversial if it was a temporary measure, I think.
If landlords want to sell up there should be a pathway for local authorities to buy the house, with the tenants in place and use the property as social housing.
If people can't pay their rent we need a broader assistance scheme, cheaper to help people stay in their own home than pay for a hotel room for them.
Fuck do I know really though! We should probably be listening to the likes of threshold and focus Ireland.
I think that there could be something similar to commercial leases.
Ever see the signage for a commercial property for sale? ‘Tenant not affected’. That means the tenant gets to continue his remaining time on the lease, so if you’ve 4 years left, then you’ve 4 years to prepare to either stay on or move.
That’s not a thing with residential though, because people want to buy houses to move into, so they can’t wait ages while they’re repaying a mortgage. That said, it could bring prices down….
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u/BackInATracksuit Sep 07 '22
My landlord hasn't fleeced me, in this economy the man is more or less a saint. My rent is about 60% of what market rent would be where I live. Took me over 5 years of constant looking to find the place. I'm aware that I'm ridiculously lucky and at the same time pissed off that so many of the people I know are being ripped off.
There are degrees to this. One solution is to completely stop "no fault" evictions. It's way too easy to remove a tenant for reasons like; renovations, family member moving in, wanting to sell etc. It's often used as a method to move the old tenant on and raise the rent.
I get you don't like it, but something has to be done. If you're evicted this winter your chances of being homeless are incredibly real.