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Post by skylark on Sept 5, 2024 16:00:12 GMT
We hear today that by Christmas Hereditary Peers will be removed from the HoL. About time too, how long has it been, a thousand years or something. We cannot break the hold the uppers have if they remain in the power base unelected. Once this is done the govt will start work on reforming what's left. I hope they start looking at setting up groups by experience who are actually prepared to attend and have knowledge of subjects. This has become a retirement home for many ex MPs some of whom only come when they want to bring friends for lunch in the dining room. I am all for removing hereditary peers but what do you mean when you talk about the upper house being ‘elected’. Lords and dames are appointed if they don’t inherit, and long may that last! One of the strengths of the upper house is that it isn’t subject to the vagaries of the general electorate! |
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Post by rikiiboy on Sept 6, 2024 6:23:39 GMT
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Post by hild1066 on Sept 7, 2024 8:11:18 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj35d1pldggoThe govt will introduce the Private Rental Bill this week. It will scrap no fault evictions, put controls on rent increases and make it a legal requirement that landlords repair hazards. This is the biggest change to the private rental system in decades, possibly a century. You know they have been working on these things a long time whilst in opposition don't you.
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Post by rikiiboy on Sept 7, 2024 8:49:41 GMT
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Post by rikiiboy on Sept 7, 2024 9:06:26 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj35d1pldggoThe govt will introduce the Private Rental Bill this week. It will scrap no fault evictions, put controls on rent increases and make it a legal requirement that landlords repair hazards. This is the biggest change to the private rental system in decades, possibly a century. You know they have been working on these things a long time whilst in opposition don't you. In all probability this will increase evictions, where does a landlord rehouse tennants, while houses are being repaired? I honestly feel that having a pet without the landlords permission is a step too far, especially where he is renting his house/s is fully furnished. I expect this interference with landlords rights will ultimately lead to many rented properties being put up for sale. N.B. my sister's cats destroy virtually all of her lounge furniture. (She followed my advice and fitted self adhesive metal strips to both sides of all her doors to deter any further damage.) |
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Post by Hilde on Sept 7, 2024 10:41:34 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj35d1pldggoThe govt will introduce the Private Rental Bill this week. It will scrap no fault evictions, put controls on rent increases and make it a legal requirement that landlords repair hazards. This is the biggest change to the private rental system in decades, possibly a century. You know they have been working on these things a long time whilst in opposition don't you. In all probability this will increase evictions, where does a landlord rehouse tennants, while houses are being repaired? I honestly feel that having a pet without the landlords permission is a step too far, especially where he is renting his house/s is fully furnished. I expect this interference with landlords rights will ultimately lead to many rented properties being put up for sale. N.B. my sister's cats destroy virtually all of her lounge furniture. (She followed my advice and fitted self adhesive metal strips to both sides of all her doors to deter any further damage.) Landlords always used to be able to come in and fix things, even put in new kitchens with the tenant in situ. The problem is that now they evict them on the pretxt of doing work. Then whack the prices up, when all they did was decorate. I really can't believe they are charging an average of £650 a month for the cottages round me, 10 years ago it was £350. I don't think landlords should have multiple mortgages on several properties that are subject to market forces. This didn't used to happen, landlords bought properties for cash. |
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Post by rikiiboy on Sept 7, 2024 12:57:12 GMT
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Post by rikiiboy on Sept 7, 2024 15:24:07 GMT
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Post by rikiiboy on Sept 7, 2024 17:49:06 GMT
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Post by rikiiboy on Sept 7, 2024 21:58:56 GMT
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Post by rikiiboy on Sept 8, 2024 13:34:00 GMT
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Post by skylark on Sept 8, 2024 17:40:51 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj35d1pldggoThe govt will introduce the Private Rental Bill this week. It will scrap no fault evictions, put controls on rent increases and make it a legal requirement that landlords repair hazards. This is the biggest change to the private rental system in decades, possibly a century. You know they have been working on these things a long time whilst in opposition don't you. Landlords have had a duty for a long time to repair hazards! I myself used to prosecute landlords who failed to comply with local authority repair notices. Under the shorthold tenancy arrangement this has been difficult to enforce if tenants are frightened of eviction, as so many are. But I have sympathy for the Tory reluctance to hold back on binning section 21 notices. Landlords won't let unless they can be sure they can get their tenants out quickly when rent isn't paid or for some other significant breach of their rental agreement. There is a huge shortage of rental properties just about everywhere, and though the obvious solution is mre social housing, that isn't going to appear by magic in the near future. |
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Post by hild1066 on Sept 8, 2024 18:30:40 GMT
If people weren't being evicted all the time for no fault, there would be more surety and supply would settle down.
Instead people are lucky to get 3 months notice and then join the voting scramble for another place where agents get people to bid against each other.
My children have rented places where landlords have said don't worry about the dodgy shower and kitchen units they're getting fixed next month. Then of course they never are.
The system is simply skewed in the landlords favour and the odd bad tenant is far outnumbered by the good ones.
With the average person being 35 before they can buy a house landlords have been in heaven, putting rents up whenever they like.
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Post by skylark on Sept 9, 2024 6:19:56 GMT
The mechanisms are already there for forcing landlords to do repairs! Tenants who are getting nowhere with repairs report to the local authority, which serves a notice. How will the government improve on that? They could of course give local authorities more money so they can act more quickly, but again that doesn't need a change in the law.
As for 'no fault' evictions - not all are genuinely 'no fault.' Many landlords use the section 21 procedure where rent is due or tenants are otherwise causing problems, simply because it is a quick way for getting people out. Local authorities are aware of this, so when a tenant reports they are being evicted under section 21, they do contact landlords to ensure that the eviction really is 'no fault'. That's not to say landlords don't evict their tenants who have complied with their tenancy, but it is an unknown number.
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Post by rikiiboy on Sept 9, 2024 7:42:02 GMT
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