United Kingdom @feddit.uk shish_mish @lemmy.world 12 mo. ago

Confiscate properties from rogue landlords, says senior Labour MP

www.theguardian.com Confiscate properties from rogue landlords, says senior Labour MP

Clive Betts says seizure threat would create ‘significant deterrent’ among those who treat fines as business cost

32 comments

Based.

Here's your reminder that owning things isn't a real job - you're leeching off actual workers, you parasites.
- Oh god - I rent out cars. I'm a leech.
  
  I'm sure the money you make for doing nothing will be more consolation than I can give you.
  
  Remember folks - we can't possibly establish strong social safety nets - ensuring people have humane living conditions would be giving them money for doing nothing. Money for simply owning something though? That's worthwhile.
- When I go to uni for 8 months in a year, where should I live?
  
  Well, it used to be in halls of residence, owned by the uni, for free until they all got sold off.
- If you own a shop and sell goods or services are you leeching off workers? 🤔
  
  Shop owners provide a service and work, they physically work and labor. Landlords do NOTHING. they sit on their ass and collect a paycheck. They're leeches.
  
  Do you pay those workers significantly less than the value they contribute to the business? What would you call that?
  
  Independent of that, you may work in the shop, or managing it - that's a job.
  
  Not necessarily but you can be.
This is the best summary I could come up with:

Rental homes should be confiscated from private landlords who repeatedly break the rules and exploit tenants, the head of the Commons housing committee has told the Guardian.

Clive Betts, the chair of the levelling up, housing and communities select committee, said handing courts the power would create a “significant deterrent” to landlords who treated fines for letting out squalid, unsafe and overcrowded homes as simply a cost of doing business.

In its Living Hell series, the Guardian is shining a light on issues in the private rented sector, including the case of Mohammed Ali Abbas Rasool, a rogue landlord in London who caused misery for tenants for more than 10 years despite repeated fines, prohibition notices and bans.

One housing official involved in investigating Rasool’s case thinks he and other landlords built the expectation of fines into their business model “and take the hit”.

Labour has said if it wins the general election it will ensure all existing funding available for affordable housing is spent and it will assess the inherited situation to create a robust plan.

A spokesperson for the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities said: “The small minority of criminal landlords who exploit their tenants can already be banned by councils and rightly should be.

The original article contains 792 words, the summary contains 209 words. Saved 74%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
Confiscate properties from rogue landlords? Nah, let's confiscape properties from all landlords. Abolish landlords. Fuck 'em.
He basicly just said "Confiscate catnip from cats"

You've viewed 32 comments.