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why be a landlord at this point?
Excellent question. Why indeed?
The fuck is a social housing landlord? Isn’t the whole point of social housing that it’s not owned by some fucking piece of shit landlord?
Thatcher social housing snatcher. It all got sold off and now its privatised and the state spend gorillions giving money to landlords
Lmao wtf, the UKkk is surely THE neoliberal hell on earth
It very much is. Anyway worth looking up post war consensus and right to buy if you’re interested in what we had and lost within the span of like 40 years.
Or this very good Tom Nicholas video https://youtu.be/jZpLiJdIGbs
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
the germans did this, except in some cases after the buildings were basically collapsing because the profit has been squeezed out of it they bought them back, renovated them, then sold them again
No. Fucking. Way. That is absurd. UK labor is fucking worthless. What a ridiculously easy issue to campaign on.
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if you are a landlord (parasitic filth) you can register with a regulator or the local council to offer the property as social housing
generally they are supposed to be held to certain standards and be inspected etc.
but pretty much every council has a waiting list ~5-10 years long because thatcher sold a shitload off, so they usually fast track them through, so the tenant gets miserable and sick, and the slumlord gets richbecause thatcher sold a shitload off
Also because the UK forgot how to build anything that’s not a giant glass dildo for investment banks around 1980
At least in my county, the council doesn’t really interact with or take responsibility for social housing. It was solely that social housing was offered to low-income families and that it’s supposed to be charged at 75% market rate.
In fairness, most social housing is owned by supposedly not-for-profit organisations, but they’re still typically making rich people rich and screwing over poor people.
Haha no, let’s have a parasitic middle man otherwise is gommunism and “inneficient”, and let’s also do that with hospitals, ports, railroads etc
But look on the bright side, we don’t have to pay the scary T-WORD (subsidizing businesses is different, trust me.)
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The US pretty much has the same thing with Section 8 housing and it’s also poorly maintained.
why be a landlord at this point?
What do they mean? Everytime a la dlord posts or talks its about how hard they work to maintain their property. Constantly fixing things and dealing with unreasonable tenants. Such upstanding citizens surely would fix mould, wether or not the law required it, right? Then there’s no practical change.
The only way this could be bad, is if landlords don’t actually do anythingIt’s worse. Even the ones who would fix it on their own will get up in arms about being made to. If they do it on their own, they can feel good about themselves; if they have to do it, they don’t get that sense of moral superiority
the mould is obviously from unreasonable tenants just hosing down the walls all the time. it’s like the zoolander gas station scene in there, 24/7. So it’s bad you have to fix that because it removes the serfs incentive to not do the zoolander gas station scene 24/7
A landlord: I actually have to do something?
: “Sorry, but this product you’re selling can’t be dangerous.”
: “UGH, you’re KIIILLING MEEEEEEE! What are we, a bunch of BROWNS?!?!?”What a baby.
Not enough, clearly
Sounds like
could stand to have a few more laws on landlords if cleaning up mould is a problem.And remember: the working class is obviously the lazier class.
Didn’t you hear? Being a landlord is a working class occupation.
why be a landlord at this point?
If they don’t want to be landlords any more they can give their speculative real estate to the people who live in it and get real jobs instead of being landlords.
For some reason they never do that, even though being a landlord is so horrible.
Bare in mind that most of these properties will sell for a profit even with mould and shit dripping off the window sills. These people act like theyre trapped into their wildly appreciating assets.
I viewed a house last week that stank of mould and damp, looked like absolute shit and even the estate agents said it would need someone to strip the walls and treat it (like £2000+) but they still had it accepted for asking price which was a healthy £50,000 profit over 2019.
What’s the
equivalent of
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It’s not even landlords lmfao this is for social housing AKA councils and housing associations providing rent fixed to your income. Private Landlords can still mould it up however they like.
(ok technically social housing can have landlords but still it’s such a small share of the UK housing market that it won’t meaningfully harm the average mom-and-pop landleech)
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Hate on ladlords aside, the comment can be interpreted as extremely ableist
yeah i know
but who else is gonna LORD THE LAND!!!1eleven
