Updating post from Reddit.
Did NRLA members receive the email today with NRLA promoting Living Redefined Ltd? They say they provide "bulk property sourcing" for "asylum accommodation" and show SERCO as a partner.
It appears that Labour is eager to relocate the boat migrants from hotels to private rental accommodation.
What's fascinating is Living Refined has a Case Study that says "By replacing costly hotel accommodations with Dispersed Accommodation, over the next five years this project is estimated to save the UK tax payer more than £50 million, whilst also providing asylum seekers with stable, dignified housing"
Living Refined seems to have been doing this for a while, bragging, "The delivery of properties for Asylum Accommodation and Support Contracts (AASC) demonstrates the ability and capacity of Living Refined to meet critical governmental housing needs."
The connotations of the NRLA email subject "What if letting didn’t have to be this hard?" suggest kicking out tenants and letting the government sublet. This does not bode well for the working class to access rental housing.
P.S. Be careful "Living Refined" seems to have Phoenix the company a few times.
I wouldn't just out of principle and for my neighbours
Jesus!! imagine the uproar and damage once someone finds out why would landlords want to risk their property for potential damage from public and even those they are trying to house. No doubt insurance won't cover and all the liability will be on the landlord. Will the gov also provide security for these properties?
Edit: what about the right to rent checks the landlord can't take them in as they are not legal per that policy?
Or have I missed something are these those with a right to be citizens but just going through the process?
You think the government is housing people from overseas who aren’t going through the process?
I mean the wording around it does seem that way...
https://www.gbnews.com/news/labour-blasted-enabling-illegal-migrants-landlord-scheme
5 years guaranteed rent for landlords who sign up
That’s your source? Seriously?
Well they are just reporting on it but nrla is a better source but the op already stated this.
https://www.nrla.org.uk/news/incentivise-investment-or-face-worsening-housing-crisis-NRLA-warns
A better source, when neither you’ve linked says anything about the migrant status of those being housed? The best you’ve got is vague references to ‘reports’?
Your ‘better’ is not like our Earth better.
I am not sure what you want to be fair I am just reading the information on numerous sites which all seem to say why they are doing it to save hotel costs.
Another source
https://inews.co.uk/news/home-office-plan-rent-homes-migrants-landlords-3661695
Another one
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2047438/migrant-housing-mapped-all-towns
And another
I would be very wary, and you’d need to carefully read the terms of your mortgage and insurance…. Most lenders and insurers exclude letting to asylum seekers so it could be quite a can of worms
Obviously not for those who own outright. But fair point.
>Most lenders exclude letting to asylum seekers
Correct, plus most prohibit any contract other than an AST. So, subletting to a 3rd party like the Council, Government or SERCO would be a breach of contract. Which would, in turn, invalidate any insurance.
God forbid landlords (checks notes) get guaranteed rent payments....?
The risk to the condition of a property is always there, regardless of who is in residence - I've had tenants with amazing references destroy a house, and those who I consider to have 'rolled the dice' on as first timers be amazing.
Besides, it's optional ffs.
Some have moral concerns, but others like you say they will accept the Guaranteed Rent, handle Maintenance, and leave the management headaches to a third party. It’s hard for ordinary tenants to compete with what the government is providing using their tax money, especially in a post "Renter Reform" world.
This reduces the supply of rental accommodation and drives rents up further.
This is a terrible argument.
How about the money that is saved on temporary housing can be used to fund public housing construction, which will save more money as people can be housed in publicly-owned housing, so more money can be spend on house building — crisis solved right there.
Cutting costs doesn't really free up money, just were in less deep hole with debt. However we should build more. It's that building takes ages and tenants will be evicted and replaced today. The government outbidding them for their own homes with their taxes.
Building doesn’t take ages in the majority of European countries. Simply describing features of the problem is not a convincing way to rebut a solution to said problem.
what about the existing tenants that I assume you would need to evict? you know the people who are working and paying those taxes aswell as the rent ?
Me!
Im now experiencing this :) kicked out for vulnerable people and now having to face somewhere else and cant find anywhere
Guess this is why as a Tennant of 4.5 years always paying on time ive been evicted to house "vulnerable people"...frankly the renters bills cant go through quick enough
Unfortunately, paying on time and looking after the house is a requirement - it does not afford additional an additional privilege of 'never being evicted'. If your story is true, I'm sorry for the circumstances - but though it was your home, it is the landlords house, if they want a different tenant (and follow the rules to evicted the current one) that's their prerogative.
I absolutely agree there should be better protections for tenants from unfair treatment - but these wouldn't extend to changing what happened to you.
So you think its fine for a landlord to evict a house of 6 when none of them have done anything wrong just to house vulnerable people so they get a increase in income....without having to lift a finger.
Correct me if im wrong but this is a no fault eviction and the new rental rights would prevent this.
Landlords that do this are scroungers
And here comes the Renters Right Bill and EPC. What more do they want from us? And the reason why demand is higher than supply?
Because wildly insufficient housing construction because of an over-reliance of market-manipulating house builders and the dismantling of social housing provision, not basic standards of living and energy efficiency.
Also a very real possibility that the next government just puts a stop to this overnight. When there are thousands of these cases who need eviction what's going to happen then?
I just have been told i have been evicted after 4.5 years renting from someone, as well as everyone else in my house.
Its to now be used to house "vulnerable people" at a premium price. .sorry but im fucking fuming