Diane Abbott MP Grilled Over Rental Housing Crisis & Illegal Viewing Charges | Good Morning Britain 

These politicians are so out of touch with reality.

Absolutely outrageous situation Diana Abbott spot on

Bring fair rent back , that's when the council send some one out to see how much you can rent your property out for

This woman seriously hasn’t got a clue. It’s illegal for a landlord to put a rent up more than once in any given 12 month period, let alone every 3 or 6 months. It’s illegal for a landlord to charge to view a property and any landlord doing this needs reporting. Also, a bad landlord is not a landlord using a no fault notice (section 21). A bad landlord is a landlord that carries out illegal evictions! Sometimes a landlord might need the property back and only has the option of a section 21 notice, they may need to move back in or sell the property and cannot use any other legal notice (section 8) as they don’t have grounds, if the tenant isn’t in arrears or causing problems. Yes there are some unscrupulous landlords out there that are only interested in maximising rental income but there are no laws on what rent they can charge and ultimately, it’s a business based on supply and demand. Like any other business, if costs (mortgages) go up then rents will increase to reflect this. From experience there are as many bad tenants out there as there are landlords but you never hear about these. Tenancy law strongly favours the tenant and if they do away with the section 21 all that will happen is rent going up and more rented properties will be sold, reducing the number of rented properties further, increasing the demand and subsequently, increasing prices. Tenants, be careful what you wish for!!

I’ve never missed my rent since my father passed 5 years ago and I took over the tenancy. He also never missed the rent in 20 years before that. This is including through lockdown where 60% of tenants defaulted in payments. I still have carpet (which is threadbare) from the 1970’s. Wallpaper from the 1970’s. Radiators (which hardly work) from the 1970’s. Last year they installed a new bathroom which was much needed due to using a bucket to bathe as the shower taps were so old they wouldn’t work. My rent has gone up 3 times in 3 years. Plus £100 extra per month straight away once the previously mentioned bathroom was installed. I’m only 29 and have no other family to rely on. But I still keep paying my rent on time. 3 days before Christmas I got a no reason eviction section 21. This is due to them wanting to put a new tenant in here with a higher rent due to the demand. Putting my rent up to £1000 would be too much of a jump and illegal, a section 21 is a loophole for this. This is a 2 bedroom flat in North West England - not London. Something seriously needs to be done as I have never asked for anything and always paid rent but still have got treated like s***. The LL got left 50 properties by his father, and the mortgage was probably paid off in the 1980’s when he was born. The fact they want such a large rent is phenomenal and evil. This HAS to stop. Families will seriously suffer across the country if this carries on. They are abusing the system for their gain.

"Hoping" to build, well at least it's not a " we will"

She thought they were talking about land mines.

If I'm not mistaken the Tories have been in power for 13yrs and Jeremy Corbyn offered to help by building a million council houses but people wanted brexit not affordable housing and voted Tory!

Why the comment section for GB is open?

A bad landlord is one who will gladly rent out a property that's not fit for habitation.

And now look where she is

If the government stopped offering ridiculous incentives like Help to Buy that subsidised Developer profits, and helped inflate property prices then the younger generation might be able to buy instead of being Forced to rent!

I never heard of landlord charging for just looking at property

Pure greed that's all it is stop them.

Regarding landlords they are worse off due to the goverment taking 20%of the entire income of the property including the mortgage , I’ve never heard anyone charge a tennant for looking around a property they may want to rent total lies

Good luck to renters when the revised EPC rating requirements come in.

Strange isnt it. Tax landlords out the market 》less availible property to rent 》rent fee's increase. People need affordable housing and demand outstriping supply will always create problems.

She confused Dianne when she stated "already their mortgage is double the rent they are charging". Dianne hasn't done doubles yet, or singles.

Is London run by a Labour mayor I thinking she needs to have a word with him and ask why he's not building affordable housing, which he has the funding for

How has she got a job? She literally just said Labor is going to bring in a rule that already exists

when that one in green sad to useless Abbott 'let us have the details of those estate estates as wee need to look into!' yeh, like she is telling the truth she just using clap trap.

Abbott hasn't a clue has she

Look, I’ve been privately renting for over 12 years now and I have not had a ‘good’ landlord yet! 2 x section 21’s because I reported mould and damp, 3 x had to move because of disrepair and the landlord won’t help. My current landlord asked me if I wanted my rent increasing by 37% (£320 a month)or a section 21- I had no other option but to take the section 21. 6 weeks to find somewhere to live now but I cannot afford another private rental as they are just not affordable anymore. I’ve asked the council to help but they just told me that I will be put in temporary accommodation like a bedsit or hotel. I can’t believe that life has got so tough.

I really feel for landlords.they just can't rip people off it seems to retire early to count their money, its getting tough.

Asking Diane Abbott for a financial. Solution? Lol. 😂😂😂😂😂

Why oh why do we have to see this woman on TV

Any mention of bad tenants?

Bless her, nobody deserves the abuse they get, and dianne Abbott is a pioneer for young black women and black women in general. Regardless of whether you agree with her, she is a leading figure and inspiration

50% of council housing in London has gone to immigrants - is this maybe why there isn't enough council houses?

Nicola Sturgeon could have just turned Twitter off.

Some landlords rent out awfull homes wont do repairs if the tenanants complain they put them out i know someone it happend too . On the otherside of the coin a lot of tenants do damage and ho off with out paying rent and fuel bills

Mass immigration all willing to rent with overcrowding to share the cost.. this has taught landlords that they can ask for more money with multiple occupancy. This has made it unaffordable to rent on your own or as a couple. Also to many wealthy people buying swathes of property for cash investment and holiday homes which is pushing up the cost to buy. Stagnant wages for over a decade while the cost to rent and buy has sky rocketed. The immigrants are moving to the uk and the native brits are leaving or migrating further north or west country to get away from the negative effect its having on the job and housing rental/buying market

Oh no !!! Wake up sheeple !!!

i rent to my daughter. i am a pensioner on a fixed income, i am a carer for my grandson my daughters rent has not increased for over 10 years. if i charged the going rate she would not be able to afford it. the problem is maintenance costs are more than rent revenue. a radiator leak cost £80 pounds to fix. but the damage a leak costs is far higher

Well done Madley and Garroway. So a couple of big questions you failed to ask. 1. So a buy to let mortgage are generally tracker mortgages and so as the Bank of England raise the base rate the landlords mortgages go up and so this has to be passed on. 2. The Labour Party Mantra is council house ,council House ,council House. To be paid for by. Yep you guessed it the hard working middle classes that work 40/50 Hours a week to get by pay bills And survive. This country is so messed up. We need a reset on politicians , media presenters and the general policies this country has.

And really, has she gotten loads of abuse? Or was it people expressing their disappointment in her capacity as a politician.

I’m sure this women is a liability within Labour

Bad landlord who doesnt do repairs ,but still want the rent

Bloody hell the comment section is open?? 😲

Wow. Did GMB actually turn on the comments section? After years of closing it !

Well, at least here in Germany, we have laws to protect tennants. You cant be evicted without good reasons, and a tennant is able to go to the courts, if the landlord wants to raise the rent without improving the appartment. Rent raising is capped at certain points. Landlords are obliged to take care of houses and appartments. When I moved autumn 2021, the mixing tap in my new appartment didnt work. I called my landlord, the state ( social housing) and they sent a plumber to fix it. I paid nothing.

Cap rents build council houses

Clearly Diane standing up for renters and the panel questioning like Landlords. Good of Diane to stand her ground. Let’s hope Labour do build lots more council houses too to fill the housing gap.

I can’t understand how Diane abbot is in the position she’s in ,in my opinion she doesn’t seem to be in reality,

As thick as mince. I thought she had been kicked out of Labour - what is she doing representing them on TV.

Don't worry they are all leaving the sector and the properties sold to private individuals,so removing a tranche of housing for those that can't buy.

They are hoping building more council houses,i see so many council houses empty ,left abandoned and why council , doesnt given these houses to people who are working hard but well doesnt earn like these people on tv or politicians and help them out

Get to the point Woman!!!

I love how “bad landlords seem anecdotal cases, one or two” but “we all know so many good landlords, poor landlords, such struggle all the time” 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

my old landlord had over 200 places should be a maximum of 5 to 10

Sack Diane Abbott

I bet Diane Abbott doesnt worry where she is going to sleep

Poor Ms Abbott she would be out of her depth in a padding pool. Not her best subject arithmetic. Mouth in gear ,brain in neutral.

You know how they burned witches - should we have the same sort of thing with, ENTER HERE!

She's wearing a syrup 😂😂

A bad landlord doesn't do any repairs either Diane.

Diane is wrong. Landlords can’t put up the rent every few months. It’s once a year maximum. Also good landlords issue S21 for all sorts of reasons including selling. Often with a bad tenant a S21 is the quickest and cheapest way. Yes BAD TENANT. No fault is specified but a lot of the times there’s definitely fault. But landlords doesn’t have to deal with endless counterclaims about repairs, asthma, autistic kids, hurt felling of a tenant, hardship etc. All mainly BS claims. The more restrictions put on properties the less properties there are. Landlords and tenants should work together and be friends. The politicians promising you the earth don’t care about you. They are chasing votes and being woke. There’s going to be a lot less properties as time goes on. Maybe it’s time to love your landlord 🥰

So full of lies…

We also need to encourage good tenants to ensure persistent damage neglect to homes they rent doesn't cause extreme damage to homes. As well as community degradation. In our street we have one private tenant, they do nothing to care for the home, it is run down litter everywhere. They bully the neighbours either side. The landlord is very elderly, so does nothing. It is a vicious cycle of decline, if a tenant cares not & doesn't report works needing doing. The Council wont step in to resolve the issues. So the rest of the community suffers. It is interesting that some tenants wont report maintenance when damage occurs in a home they rent, as they dont want to pay rent to increase for damages incured. Home should be homes & not GGDP. Social housing bungalows need to be kept for the disabled & elderly, instead of young families. More bungalows built for the elderly & houses for young families. Jeremy Corbyn was fighting for our NHS that's why they did a hatchet job on him.

Abbott in full command

How many houses do you own Dianne ?

Absolutely love Diana Abbott!

Doesn't she talk a lot BS. Diane talks as an expert and knows nothing about renting !

Without landlords everyone would be homeless or in b and b hotels.

It beggars belief that Abbott gets tv time This woman is clueless about everything and anything she should not be in politics

Diane great form I remember her as a journalist she was fantastic

Dianne Abbott and Jeremy Corbin are the latest version of Rosa Luxembourg and Karl Liebknecht. Don't lose your head in the local canal though, Diane. Great day for Germany.

Landlords have been ripping off tenants for a long time. Regulation is overdue and needed.

Shame how cruel can someone be so hurtful

presenter morphing into rachel Johnson

If you want to solve the rental market problem, do the following: 1. Stop taxing landlords on their gross income. This is one of the things driving up rent. Their costs go up so do yours. Government meddling has directly caused this. 2. Build more council houses, the demand is high, the supply is low, this is screwing your market; double whammy. 3. Don't remove section 21, the government should have no say in what you do with your property on principle alone. If someone wants to move back, sell up etc, they should be able to do so.

It will cost..... it will cost 🤣🤣🤣🤣

The happy hippo looked startled from the get go.

Typical wasting time, the interview isn’t about her so answer the questions directly without bl st

Diane is beautiful.

Why do you have some wone like Diane abbott on your show

Labour would bring in a law for an anecdotal issue that's already illegal under the current law? Er... what? So this is a segment about a problem that we're not sure actually exists and we've got the most clueless political grifter to discuss it? Thank you Good Morning Pointlessness.

I usually just watch Diane Abbott interviews to make fun of her, but she actually did a good job here. No criticism from me this time.

No just need social housing for legal born 🇬🇧 instead of people just expecting to jump the queue especially if they turn up here illegally. Meantime 🇬🇧 on the street and more going into poverty. Some families waiting over 8 year yet two minutes in the country and they expect back and front doors. 250 thousand 🇬🇧 on the street and rising.

If Thatcher hadn't sold all the council houses off there wouldn't be a housing crisis !

i agree with her idea that all twins should be given a 1 bedroom flat so they have a room each genius

Thank God this woman never became Home Secretary in the Corbyn Cult .Could you seriously imagine the Corbyn Dream team in power

Shes fantastic, poor conservatives, triggered haha