Wednesday, Jun 13, 2007
Hopefully this will become another nail in the BTL coffin
Guardian: Tenants living under threat of eviction
I saw this on the BBC as well. How disgraceful that we are one of the few countries where landlords can evict tenants for requesting necessary repairs. The National Landlords association said "the government should be careful about "meddling with section 21" as it could be the final straw for many of the nation's landlords". I say "lets hope so"!!
Posted by becky @ 07:08 PM (162 views) Add Comment
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1. paul said...
I posted this first thing this morning and no-one picked up on it.
I just thought it was an excellent example of how New Labour champions crooked landlords.
2. Orwell said...
My heart still moves at Cathy Come Home (Ken Loach).
I think they should abolish the Housing Acts 1980 - 1996 that allow for such short termism! This would do two things in part it would reduce the speculation and also it would give proepr security to tenants who (until the recent demoted tenancy provisions) had much better security in Local Authority tenure.
Effectively it would take us back to The Rent Act 1977 when a rental property gave security of tenure and even allowed you to pass the rental tenure and terms onto heirs and assigns!
NB I am an ex Legal Aid lawyer with a lot of Housing Litigation experience, not just from the private sector either but from Local Authority Sector as well ! The Government and their lap dog The Legal Services Commission (ex Legal Aid Board) no longer think I should be practising this they have managed to force the awkward squad out of it (i.e. any one who will challenge Blur's horrible unpleasent undemocratic approach and views). They hate proper lawyers (unlike Blur) even more than they hate the press because don't forget sometimes we are all that stands between them and dictatorship (that Blur I believe actually wants and with the Gulper not far behind) - so I do prviate client work at three times the remuneration (not by choice either!!!).
Blur and The Gulper are a menace to democracy as well as the economy!
3. iguana said...
Hang on you lot!
These policies and the support legislation are firmly down to the dreaded Thatch era (oops-error).