The truth behind the UK's housing crisis | Kwajo Tweneboa interview 

half a sentence and they damned themself to ridicule by you and rightly so yes breath causes condensation , and that causes damp, and can lead to mould , but not if windows are open

​@@tomfinney3416 but can you have the windows open when it's 0° outside. Actually even with the windows open the damp didn't get any better. It's even more humid outside in the winter.

@@chrishart8548 exactly! It's not going to help the humidity inside when it's lashing down with rain for weeks on end

@@tomfinney3416 so what's your suggestion? Do I breath less? Or does the landlord install ventilation? Because I had someone evaluate the property myself and I was informed that the ventilation doesn't work. It's my human right to breath, thanks

take this to the press

How can the landlord cunt the gas or electricity? Wasnt your mother paying the gas or electricity? How was he able to cut her heating off?

Fishtank, ketle, breathing. Got a de humidifier in the end. It was getting filled up 3 times a day. The humidity was 99%

@@chrishart8548 That's a lot of breathing you're doing...

Ok 👍 but personal responsibility I put up with evil lodgers to save up for double glazing and I spend £5000 on painting job! I would much rather have gone on holiday with my partner but I chose to do the right thing! Disabled people genuine victims need government sure everyone else personal responsibility 2 day a week job in co op pays £750 a month 😂

I dont understand why people rent bad properties, why do you accept the property in the first place? You`re also to blame for this. And if you live there for years and mushrooms are growing in your house, well maybe you should buy some cleaning products and clean. Its not the landlord responsability to come flush your toilet or clean your shower. Dont be a dirty pillock.

@@anna297282 sure, so assuming that your tenants don't need to eat, drink, have power, repair any furniture that breaks and have no other on-going big expenses, £750 might be a price that's possible to pay on those hours; and of course, if they work more than that, they'll earn more than that -- but that doesn't mean that you *should* charge that much just because you *can* (i.e. you may not be providing much of a service, depending on the quality of the home and how well you actually manage it - most landlords do a very poor job). Those are just the weaker arguments though. The stronger argument, in my opinion, is that while you're complaining about tenants supposedly being nightmares, it's worth noting that 750 is cheap for rent in a lot of the UK and most landlords are buying up housing and using the rent to pay the mortgage, effectively using their pre-existing wealth or credit to make it harder for other people to get on the property ladder - all while not providing a decent service as a landlord at all. Most renters I've spoken to have stories about landlords *putting their physical health at risk* by failing to do proper maintenance and checks on the houses they lease - and I actually know very few who have ever had landlords that actually do what they're meant to. Preventing mould and mushrooms growing up the walls, painting the place well enough that it can be lived in comfortably and double glazing the effing windows isn't even the bare minimum that you should be doing as a landlord - and if you're about to complain that doing everything you should be doing makes it hard to make a profit, *realise that you're not owed a profit for making it harder for other people to get homes*. You're not providing a service that people would need if landlords didn't exist anyway, and even if you were, if you can't make it a viable business without overcharging, you shouldn't be landlording. If you're a buy-to-rent-er like most landlords are, you're getting a house out of it at the end of the day anyway. Landlording is a usually done as a side-hustle to get money you don't have to work every day for, while your tenants are working every day to pay it for you and not even getting the home at the end of it like they would be if they were buying the house, so if you want an extra £750 a month, why don't you spend another 2 days of your week working at the local co-op, eh?

Councils and HAs are also guilty of not maintaining their properties. They too should be held accountable.

@@icilmaa absolutely.

I’m not a tenant, but my property is attached to such a landlord and every year I pay for the gutters to be cleared because we share a down pipe and it’s on my property. My neighbour the other side of the property is always having the water authority out to sort out sewage blockages. The fence (landlord boundary) has been falling down for years, panel by panel. Not all tenants are good at maintaining gardens. The house doesn’t come with tools or lawnmower and why should the tenant buy them? Most tenants have been great, but the last lot were a nightmare and left the house and garden trashed. I considered that karma!

I dont understand why people rent bad properties, why do you accept the property in the first place? Youre also to blame for this.

@@macsmiffy2197 As a tenant, if I live in a nice neighbourhood where people are taking care of their gardens etc. I'll absolutely pay for someone to do the gardens up when they get sketchy (I'm disabled so I struggle to do it myself) - but in the neighbourhood I'm in now, it's the back garden and it's fenced in, and while people can see it from their windows it's in a run-down neighbourhood with concrete everywhere and no-one takes care of their homes around here. I'm sure you'd agree, but in those cases I'm just not really interested in keeping the garden nicely since it doesn't really change anything.

I am also going through this process, so please if there’s anything that you can share, in regards to the process etc, it would be greatly appreciate.

That’s not how society works.

@hmu05366 that's how society could work if we actually legislated policy to control the housing market

Or in Parliament! Wld make a fantastic MP

*Struggle CAN build character…. Or it can totally destroy a persons ability to be a functioning member of society. Bit of a hit and miss really.

What makes me laugh are the race obsessed gammons who think they've got more in common with the likes of Reece-Mogg than they have with the Patels down the corner shop 😂. Until these fools wake up there's no hope..

Our mould in a rented house was so bad our son had to live with grandparents to get better as his health was really suffering because of the mould.

@@chrishart8548 why dont you move out, find somewhere else to rent, better conditions. If people stop renting shit properties, then landlords would have to improve their houses.

Some tenants are really horrible people too. Especially those who do not pay agreed rent and go out of their way to damage the properties they occupy. Appealing to their sense of decency is a dead end as many just don’t care

I keep saying this, if the property is so bad why do you move in? If you are given the keys to a nice property and mushrooms are growing on your walls or whateber. Maybe you should also clean and maintain the property. The landlord aint gonna come in and clean your shower or flush your toilet. Its also your responsability to maintain the standards. If you dont like it, leave and the next person should not accept the rent in a shit hole, if you do, then youre also to blame.

@@alanc457 same can be said for landlords to be honest - lots of them refuse to let tenants do basic things like hang stuff on walls even if they agree to patch the holes or have the cost of doing so taken from their deposit; lots of landlords leave tenants in mould-covered homes and refuse to fix or delay fixing unnecessarily, and lots of them are buy-to-rent landlords who eat up the housing market and make it more difficult for first-time buyers to get on the ladder. I've met one or two people who trashed the homes they're renting and were totally unfair to their landlords, and I'd almost feel sorry for the landlord in those circumstances - but buy-to-rent landlords are all profiting off of forcing others back into poverty, and to be honest I don't care if they have to spend some of the money they're getting more or less for free to patch and clean stuff up since at the end of it they get a basically free house anyway.

Too*

Government loves to earn money letting people own private businesses? What’s that got to do with the remainder of your long bible comment ?

f to faults , yes to fixes , ventilation yes , keeps damp and mould down ,if however it occurs , bleach hot water usually gets rid you are however at a hazardous point , the levelis very high in your home and sounds very unsafe this may need folk trained in tackling this mould issue , and it is your landlord or council who must help do what you can but they must help too , one final point , do not sleep in that bedroom if you can use a room less hazardous

approx 20% of mps are private landlords ,a cross party thing ,(this from last govt ,118 tory mps private landlords ,id guess less now , this cross party group work together to push for legislation favouring private landlords , for obvious reasons it can be a powerful political lobby group , it should be curtailed , i would recommend any govt minister involved in housing must not be a private landlord edit , ,, i mentioned 118 tory mps , the number has changed here is the number of mps who are landlords in the present hoc 115 of which 90 are tory

I can think of a few reasons, some outlined in this video: - Frequently, the only viable options are "out of touch" people. Campaigning to be elected as an MP is not a paying job, but it does take time and money. Those who campaign to be elected therefore must have the disposable income to not need to work (Or work as much), which doesn't exactly lend itself to ordinary, working class people who need to do a 8-6 job. - Based on the point I made above, you end up with people who are either, wealthy, old/retired or already in politics. - Politics is a career in and of itself. There are no farmers, electricians, plumbers, engineers, programmers etc working in Parliament. Because those people already have careers, and don't usually feel the need to switch.

Media entities such as the BBC should have a mandate to "expose" people who don't have actual contact with working class people, or low income families etc to show the reality of how ALL people have to live. The level of exposure of low income families is very carefully managed, and it shouldn't be.

@@cjace77 Well then surely the problem, is that people who work in those practical jobs, should be financially supported or incentivised, to be allowed to stand up in Parliament?

Im sorry but the fact some home owners dont maintain their properties doesnt mean rtb is wrong... I dont want to spend my life paying some dodgy landlord, if im spending my entire life working my a** off to pay rent/mortgage each month.... forever, then i damn well expect to own that home by the end of it, only someone whos never had to work hard or a landlord would say the nonsense you just said

@lukebowler7946 or someone who has substantial experience in the sector. Who also has worked hard their entire adult life and owns his home. The ever decreasing lack of social housing is absurd. If you have any experience dealing with homelessness or inept and dangerous private landlords you would have a greater appreciation for local authority owned accommodation. As described in this video, many of the properties purchased under rtb ended up as private sector rented accommodation, with a poorly regulated market place where people are regularly exploited. It has amounted to a transfer of wealth from the state to private ownership.

On finally moving into a sheltered housing scheme & getting a lovely bungalow, the extractor fan in the kitchen only worked sporadically & now stopped working. The useless warden said she tells tenants (minimum age 60) to keep their back door open while cooking!!😢

The emphasis should not be on ownership & value of that property. I visited & stayed with people in various places in Europe, in the 1990’s, they lived in rented accommodation that was good quality. It was thought of as normal, one couple with good, professional jobs were very happy & no stigma to renting.😮

@@SuperMarion61 yes I have heard that about the rest of Europe. In the UK people need a sense of ownership. On the council estate I live on the owner owned houses are nice and tidy. The local authority owned with tenants are usually a bit run down and scruffy. I actually think it may be a UK problem but the standard and cost of housing in the UK is also very high. And we have too many greedy private landlords and not regulations on standards of properties

There's plenty of risk v return. Landlords have tenants that don't pay.

Yeah and house prices can go down between buying and selling. Personally I feel investing in stocks is less risky

There's this idea that the mortgage on the property gets paid off. That's really rare. Currently you're more likely to just have an interest only mortgage as a LL. Like a 5% mortgage on 150k is still £7.5k in just interest, that's not even including repayment. So the rent has to be at least £625 a month on a £200k home just to cover the interest (which is generally below uk average house price). Then you need to add on the other costs. I used to believe it was easy money, and 10 years prior, I'd agree with you, but it's not currently. Which is shown in the increasing number of Landlords getting out of property.

@@John-ou4rm True, you can insure against it, but you then still have an asset that appreciates in value.

@@paulhayes7972 Typically (in the last 40 years) if house prices are going down, the markets are also going down

How ?

@@chrishart8548 Not venting moisture out of the property properly.

And you don’t have a human right to common land, and definitely not to charge others to spend time in it

@@daftjunk2008 It's not common land if someone owns it.

​@@daftjunk2008obviously not human right but I have the legal right. The owners also have the choice to choose who to rent to, this guy in the vid wouldn't get a callback 100%. Like a moaning child who wants sweets and stropping when he gets told no (but can't).

yeah but the right to housing is a human right set out by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which the UK is signed up to meaning they need to do something to house people

@@rolinti9146 The Right to Housing, that you're quoting doesn't mean you have a right to someone else's property. Its closer to tenant rights, such as privacy, security of tenure, jobs/facilities being close, prejudice.