Food Banks Whats Going On?

[nelly55]

Rents on property have increased due to the constant demands of rules of this goverment and the expectations of tenants wanting new carpets,etc ,and rent arrears.Just wait until the landlords start selling when all property has to be epc C and gov expects landlords to pay up to £10k per property.I could have 6 very good tenants looking for a new home though no fault of theirs.Simply because going from D to C would never be recovered on rent or value

 

[pgk]

This was before right to buy, yes?

he answer is rent - rent is eye watering. Before I bought up here, I wanted to rent a 2 bed so my daughter has a room when she comes to stay - looking at 900pcm.

Around the corner from me, one bed flat is on offer at £850 pcm, same one 18 months ago was on at £695. You then have council tax and energy bills, no change now out of £1000 pcm. Son rents a I bed in a farm yard for much less but of course no local facilities and 4 miles to nearest shop, a small very expensive co-op. Not possible without your own transport.

 

[glasshouse]

Runaway rents are are caused by greedy agents and landlords end of.

 

[bluebell]

good to here others views, opinions on this, one point on housing, yes i agree with this, but like alot of things theres another side? what about all the many thousands of people living semi or totaly illegally in sheds, caravans etc etc, ive got some that join the back of one of my fields, discharge sewage into the field not on the councils radar? or they turn a blind eye? another example of us having to the right thing play by the rules? getting planning permission with all the costs and rules regulations that have to be followed , but the other lot what rules regulations did they have to do?

 

[Hindsight]

Rent Act and government enforced controls is the only option. Politically unacceptable while a Tory government. And politically unacceptable for any other colour government. But it is the only way. The young and poor should really join as a political movement to get more appropriate representation in Parliament. Might call it the Labour Party.

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Folks have no pride or shame these days and are quite happy to use food banks so they can afford to drink, smoke and watch sky sports.

the Left want a client state, where everyone is reliant on the government for everything, and never take responsibility for anything.

 

[kiwi pom]

Rents on property have increased due to the constant demands of rules of this goverment and the expectations of tenants wanting new carpets,etc ,and rent arrears.Just wait until the landlords start selling when all property has to be epc C and gov expects landlords to pay up to £10k per property.I could have 6 very good tenants looking for a new home though no fault of theirs.Simply because going from D to C would never be recovered on rent or value

Perhaps if the well off didn't buy half a dozen other houses that were then expected to turn a profit, demand would decrease and house prices would fall so people on lower incomes could get a mortgage and not have to rent?

 

[Courier]

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Quite agree the gap between the top and bottom is a disgrace, do people really need hundreds of millions when others have sfa

one of the things I liked about Denmark when I lived there 25 years ago, the disparity between a blue and white collar job was far less than it is over here.

 

[Ffermer Bach]

So how do you define poverty? no food, or cant afford to buy food? wheres all the thin people gone?

that is not a factor of financial poverty, more cultural poverty and the loss of a food culture in the UK, possible to be malnourished and fat. We need to teach people how to cook good, cheap, nutritious food from scratch. ~And spend money on allotments and teach people how to grow their own too!

 

[Ffermer Bach]

This was before right to buy, yes?

he answer is rent - rent is eye watering. Before I bought up here, I wanted to rent a 2 bed so my daughter has a room when she comes to stay - looking at 900pcm.

I think my son is paying £750 plus bills for a two bed flat (and needs the spare room to "work from home")

 

[grainboy]

What he claims as expenses as an MP is irrelevant, that’s a separate issue,
What he stated is true in a lot of cases,
It seems like we no longer have free speech,

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[Oldmacdonald]

the Left want a client state, where everyone is reliant on the government for everything, and never take responsibility for anything.

Dont be ridiculous.

 

[BrianV]

The money all goes into rent or housing.

The biggest mistake this government made was giving the social rent money to the tenants rather than the landlords direct, the tenants suddenly have what seems like enough to get by on & money gets spent on what might be seen as unnecessary things, they then find they are short when the rent becomes due & have to go short on essentials.

 

[Exfarmer]

House prices and rents are the result of government policy over the last 30 odd years.
Very generous housing benefits given by the last labour government enabling tenants to pay higher rents combined with a shortage of housing largely caused by the shift to one person ( Or single parent family )occupation. This created a demand which encouraged a huge surge in private landlords chasing property to buy to let, this had been partly prompted partly by the collapse of many of the old pensions schemes which promised unlimited returns to the investors, further the buy to let mortgages which further raised demand.
Governments of all colours have been scared to act on this, in case it prompted a collapse in property prices which they know will be certain to their political death knell

 

[BrianV]

Runaway rents are are caused by greedy agents and landlords end of.

Runaway rents are simply caused by too many people chasing too few houses, if they keep allowing more & more people into the country then if you don't build more houses than needed then rents will continue to rise, supply & demand is the problem nothing else!!!

 

[Hindsight]

The biggest mistake this government made was giving the social rent money to the tenants rather than the landlords direct, the tenants suddenly have what seems like enough to get by on & money gets spent on what might be seen as unnecessary things, they then find they are short when the rent becomes due & have to go short on essentials.

Biggest mistake the government made was paying housing benefit as it has simply been passed to Landlords, same as agricultural subsidy is capitalised in rental and land values. All subsidy is capitalised into the ands of the owners of said capital.

Housing benefit is circa £40bn. It should be removed overnight. All property would then adjust to lower values. But successive governments have fed the beast until now it is rampant. Think Putin BrianV.

 

[onesiedale]

The money all goes into rent or housing.

... along with finance and monthly subscriptions.

It's just too easy for these companies to have first draw on people's Bank accounts.
This is why food is only bought with the left overs.
Which is why food banks are an 'easy'/essential option for many

 

[BrianV]

Biggest mistake the government made was paying housing benefit as it has simply been passed to Landlords, same as agricultural subsidy is capitalised in rental and land values. All subsidy is capitalised into the ands of the owners of said capital.

Housing benefit is circa £40bn. It should be removed overnight. All property would then adjust to lower values. But successive governments have fed the beast until now it is rampant. Think Putin BrianV.

Bit like with the Ukrainians, the ideas wonderful unless you are one of the poor buggers who has to suffer the consequences of others so called bright ideas!!

 

[Exfarmer]

Runaway rents are simply caused by too many people chasing too few houses, if they keep allowing more & more people into the country then if you don't build more houses than needed then rents will continue to rise, supply & demand is the problem nothing else!!!

while immigration has been a part of the problem , it is only a very small part, it is the fact that single people with children get so much help in this direction.
I was shocked how much rent a young lady with 2 children was happy to pay for a 4 bed house I had , she did work part time but I do not believe her wages would have begun to cover the rent, 2 children in Nursery and running a car.
She was a superb tenant though and I was loathe to see her go