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.
Guess she meant something different with “unreasonable rent increases”.
homelessness minister
well yes she’s making people homeless, job well done
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.
So they’ll have to give her a job again. But then she won’t be homeless anymore.
I can confirm, having a job (or 3) does not provide a home.
I bet her job does though.
Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas.
keeping herself in a job
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”?
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 onpy os this terribpe, 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.
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%.
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.
All means all, fuck you.
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.
She resigned rather than keep the rents low. She’s just gonna go full evil landlord now
SMH.
Minister for homelessness, previous experiences appreciated.
LANDLORDS ARE NOT HUMAN.
update: this article caused her to resign from her Ministerial position the next day.
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.
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
Nah it doesn’t. It’s possible to criticise a party without people automatically thinking it means I support a fascist party. This two party thinking has to stop. They both deserve a fuckload of criticism.
Is she trying to get in on this before the law passes?
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.
Being a landlord should automatically disqualify you from that position
I agree. Being a landlord should automatically disqualify you from being a landlord.
