update: this article caused her to resign from her Ministerial position the next day.
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.
Minister for homelessness, previous experiences appreciated.
She resigned rather than keep the rents low. She’s just gonna go full evil landlord now
Being a landlord should automatically disqualify you from that position
I agree. Being a landlord should automatically disqualify you from being a landlord.
Incredible. In the worst way.
Seems pretty credible to me.
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.
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So he’d be out a few thousand in deductibles and you’d likely be in prison?
Why would you toss bricks and stick around to get arrested? It’s not like the cops would even investigate, they don’t really do anything
Small claims would get you a payout though. A bunch of bricks could get you arrested.
Labour party lmao
As a Canadian, sensitive question but how come everyone in the government and labor party is Indian nowadays? Im just curious as I’ve noticed it as I read these stories
fellow Canadian, have you been to Toronto/Southern Ontario lately?
The UK has a lot of ethnic Indians because of the empire and encouraging immigration to replace people who didn’t survive WWII. The Labour Party has about as many people with Indian heritage as would be expected given population demographics. It’s probably just more than in Canada, so it seems like a lot to you.
Never connected it to the post ww2 population decline but it makes sense, thanks
There was no significant population decline during or after WW2.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/population-of-england-millennium?time=1900..2016
Much of the effect of young men of working age getting killed off was mitigated by increased participation in the workforce by women.
Mirgration from the subcontinent had much more to do with the demand for cheap labour by manufacturers in the early 20th century, especially the textile industry, and by public services during the period of postwar rebuilding.
They should rebrand to the “Work or Starve” party.
Or Work And Still Starve at the rate they’re going
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.
schrodinger’s homelessness
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.
keeping herself in a job
Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas.
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.
what a cunt
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.
Sounds better than nothing but why even make it legal to evict tenants to sell a place in the first place?
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
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?
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.
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.
