Rent crisis: is it time to get rid of landlords? 

Literal parasites on society

To the question "People want to own a home, but you're buying up all the houses", the guy responds "I'm not buying up all the houses, I'm just doing what I do and taking care of my family" - yes you are, by buying up an outsized share of scarce housing lol.

My landlord bought 3 houses in my area 20 years ago. they cost less than £20,000 each. He never repairs the houses and they are falling apart. He told me he had to raise the rent by £200 a month just to cover the 5 recent interest rates. I worked out the amount he says he has to cover. This means he has mortgages of £80,000. He has 5 holidays a year and my house has rotting window frames, no gutter on half the house. Houses are homes and greed is pushing up house and rent prices. It must stop. Councils must compulsory purchases rental homes and keep rents down. In my area the DWP set a housing benefit cap at £480 PCM. The rent for the homes in this area are £650. How on earth can people find a home in they have to claim benefits.

£180 / course, 1700 sign ups. That's £300,000. He makes his money from selling courses, not property development.

Imagine if people could buy all the water and electricity in the country and could rent it out for a profit...

What happens when millions of renters reach retirement age and their state pension won't even cover their rent?

"They just don't understand what I'm doing". You're being a parasite, babes.

Back in the day, when I purchased my first home to live-in; that was Miami in the early 1990s, first mortgages with rates of 8 to 9% and 9% to 10% were typical. People will have to accept the possibility that we won't ever return to 3%. If sellers must sell, home prices will have to decline, and lower evaluations will follow. Pretty sure I'm not alone in my chain of thoughts.

The guy saying ‘were the bad guys now, landlords are the bad guys like bankers were the bad guys’. But BANKERS WERE THE BAD GUYS!! Stop treating property as investment! It’s a home, is a fucking right.

If the landlords making enough on rents to cover their mortgage and make a profit. The issue isnt that the renters cant afford the house, its that our systems punish the poor. Government should build social housing, rent to buy, and most importantly, when they make money back use it to build more.

Oh dear, oh dear, "we need landlords because without them there will be no houses to live in"! How about we build more social housing eh? How about providing a good quality accommodation as a social right, and then when the market is freed of those who have no choice, the landlords can improve their houses to the point that they're a good deal to be paid for? We DO NOT NEED LANDLORDS! We need houses.

Council houses use to be where people rented if they couldn't afford a home, most of these were sold in the late 80s and 90s.

"Landlords aren't the problem, the problem is there aren't any new homes being built." There can be several problems. If your house was on fire and someone was outside shooting at you with a machine gun you wouldn't say "The guy shooting at us isn't the problem, the house being on fire is the problem." We need more houses and less landlords.

If you thought finding somewhere to live couldn't get more depressing, the social media kids are doing it now.

Can someone explain how using a £39k student loan to buy a house isn't fraud?

We are already in a big crash, Inflation is a catastrophe. This CPI report is a colossal failure. To bring the housing market to a halt, the FED will have to pull all the stops. The unfortunate issue is that other markets are being decimated. If you want to stay green, you have to rely on a lot of diversification. Currently up 14% and being careful. Still a better deal than leaving it in a savings or checking account yielding 0-1 percent interest.

Landlordism is a parasitic practise and it needs to end. Landlordism: 1.) Harms our economy. In taking a chunk of people’s pay just for them to exist, their spending power is depleted. 2.) Entrenches the housing crisis. Houses are no longer classified as places for people to live, but business assets for landlords. This artificially inflated their price. 3.) Undermines communities. Renters have no stake in the communities they live in (in the 5 years I’ve lived in London I’ve lived in 4 houses because of the whims of landlords), so meaningful, safe communities and relationships disintegrate. Why get to know your neighbours when you may be turfed out in a few months? 4.) Degrades neighbourhoods. Renters have no incentive to keep the houses/gardens they live in nice because they have no stake in them. They don’t report graffitied bus stops or clean up litter in the street. Not giving people a stake in their neighbourhoods allows rot to set in. 5.) Degrades mental health and well-being. A secure, affordable place to live in a community you know is essential to wellbeing. Itinerant renters often experience poor mental health and the social and medical problems (alcoholism, loneliness, etc) that stem from it. 6.) Ruins architecture. Because houses and flats are no longer homes for people to live in, but vehicles for rent extraction, they’re built cheaply and nastily and detract from the character of neighbourhoods. Awful, soulless flats with insipid shrubs and homogenised retail outlets. 7.) Ruins local commerce. Property prices (artificially inflated by Landlordism) also affect business rates. This means only corporate chains can really survive now. Instead of charming and unique local enterprises, you get processions of Tesco Expresses , chain-pubs and Costa Coffees. Bland, homogenised, soulless communities nobody wants to spend time in. Landlordism is a blight on our country that’s arguably more harmful than drug dealers and it needs to disappear.

It's not time to get rid of landlords. It's time to get rid of greedy bastards that masquerade as landlords, that includes some corrupt councils.

Housing is something everyone needs. It shouldn’t be up to the whims of the market whether people can afford a roof over their head or not. The government should build good quality homes and then rent them out at cost, so the people screwed over by landlords and banks can have secure places to live without having over a third of their income siphoned off to pay off the mortgage on someone else’s asset

"Not everyone can afford to own there home" Except renting is more expensive?...

Landlords provide housing in the same way that scalpers provide tickets.

Landlord: "If we all left the market, then there would be far less housing available." So he's threatening renters in general. He's saying that he'll keep his properties regardless even if he couldn't rent them, hence there being less houses if he left the market. If he sold it there would be the same amount of houses. I don't know if he realised he is saying "pay me money for a human right or I will force you onto the street". And he thinks he's the good guy. This is how far gone the rich are.

Landlords don't provide housing, they restrict it

lol That guy really thinks "only 20%" of landlords are really-bad? Please It's probably more like 50%, AT LEAST maybe 75%, if not higher

He rents the rooms individually? Good God, the greed...

Why can't anyone think about this? We DONT need more landlords. If we had less landlords we could BUY those homes the landlords wont be buying, and the cost to own the house will be LESS than the rent, because YOU DONT NEED TO MAKE PROFIT ON YOUR OWN HOUSE. Also, if you have a problem, you can fix it yourself, and not live in fear of being kicked out.

So the problem isn't landlords, who buy family houses and force families to take on their "investment risk" of interest rates rising by increasing their rents while they buy lamborghinis. It's young landlords who don't call themselves landlords and encourage others to become landlords so even fewer hard working families can own houses rather than pay these 28 year old landlords to take trips to go jet-skiing the UAE. Can we just ban owning properties you don't live in, and while we're at it ban tiktok?

AirBnB needs to be regulated

We rent and I accept and understand that the landlord is not a charity and is entitled to profit from it, but our property is in a poor state of repair and looks like something from the 1970s. Our rent was originally on the low side and so we didn't trouble them. The property was sold and the present landlord has put the rent up substantially so that the the rent is now close to the high end. I wonder how such people can sleep at night knowing that the people they are dealing with have to make serious cutbacks in their everyday lives, making it much more unlikely they will be able to afford any "luxury". Even having a very modest holiday becomes a real struggle. The managing agents are totally unsympathetic as they just say we can move if we don't like it!

We don't need more landlords and we don't need a profit motivated housing structure. We need more housing cooperatives and we need to remove the profit motive from housing. Full stop.

Landlord = people who make other people pay for their mortgage. If you rely solely on your rented property to pay your mortgage it means you don't have another job. If renting is your only source of income there is something wrong with you in the long run. This exploitative financial model is unsustainable and puts your bad financial habits on the shoulders of your tenants.

Council houses have rent caps they are also long term rentals . The uk government sold all the council houses and have not replaced them . Now they are trying to turm provate rentals into council houses . Private landlords are temporary rentals not long term .

They are nothing but speculators , no different than anybody putting money into equities. Difference is landlords don't understand risk and expect the market and conditions to always be in their favour. Reality check incoming.

HI FROM NYC - I HATE MY SCUMBAG LANDLORD

Can we make an app of sorts, to rate landlords? I don't see those 80% 'Good Landlords'. I have only come across landlords who ignore your concerns of mould and let you pay the repairs yourself, that should be their concern?? I don't think hyping up the 'landlord' business as a ways to earn 'easy money' has done this country any good at all! It has brought out landlords that think there is no work to be done. All the while, we are running out of money, we just recently got an email for a rent increase. Asking for the reason gave us a reply: Because of the economic situation. Yes. WE are also part of that same economic situation. And don't even get me started on 'Brexits' contribution to all this...

The main problem is the government stopped building homes. It’s getting blamed on landlords but it’s the lack of property getting built

The narrative, renting is the only option. Well not really. When thatcher sold all the housing stock and failed to build or buy more. Rents started to go up because public housing artificially kept the rents low by giving them a different option to private hosing. The problem now is that the UK needs housing, and everyone has realised that in a cost-of-living crisis. Landlords are not viable. Landlords need to go.

Oh no! Won't someone think of the poor landlords!

Landlords don't provide housing. Renters provide for their own housing by paying for it! Landlords simply take a profit on top of the cost of the property itself.

Its not just landlords, though they are the most notable example, but rentierism in general. Under this iteration of capitalism especially (since neoliberalism in the 80s) the only way to make money is to capture and own something that is essential and charge someone else to use it. That's why you are forced to subscribe to every little thing these days. When before you could by it once and own forever. Even the few things that you buy outright like electronics and automobiles are increasingly have planned obsolescence built into them so they stop working after a certain amount of time.

new word for landlords: property barons

In Wales landlords must be registered with rent smart wales, EPC D or below (soon to be C), EICR Certified, Gas Safety Certificate, standard occupational contracts, no s.21’s, legal fit for human habitation tests, rent can legally be withheld, if repairs are not completed to a set standard, financial fines imposed by LA enforcement, delayed legal response, reduced CGT allowance, s.24 taxation, increased council tax on 2nd homes (during void periods), immediate council tax premium to be paid during sale period, increased mortgage base rates (SVR), rental caps (in Scotland - potentially adopted nationally?) and a range of other complex legislation. My personal opinion is there are far more simple and lucrative returns to be had, as opposed to taking unnecessary risk of potential property destruction and withholding of rental during timeframe obtaining a possession order. This resulting in landlord leaving the market, less SA tax returns, and more need for government housing. Trying not to be negative but simply realistic.

"We absolutely need landlords, we need even more landlords, because not everybody can afford to own their own home". Rubbish. If you can afford rent you are literally paying all the costs of ownership PLUS profits. Renting does provide some flexibility and low commitment benefits for some people, but it's not like renting is cheaper than owning or landlords couldn't exist.

Many claim that rent control doesn't work, and they are right - it doesn't work for landlords (as noted by the experts in this video, including the neoliberal pro-landlord; Kemp). However, for the rest of us, it does. For example, from 1914 to 1989, the proportion of landlords dropped from 90% to less than 9%. In the 1960s, one average income could buy an average semi for 2.5 times the annual income of the applicant, with a maximum 25-year mortgage and a 10% deposit, provided you were a saver with the governement subsidised mutual building society. To prevent house inflation, mortgages (which involve money creation out of debt) were controlled by the government through a stop/go policy, rather than being left to a free-market, stock-market-based and lightly regulated banking system.

Absolutely, pretty much all economists agree that "rent seeking" behaviour brings no value to the economy whatsoever, but is a form of value extraction parasitically feeding off the productive members of society. Further negating the distribution of wealth & money, long-term negatively effecting the economy as the appropriate people generating the money are not being rewarded with it's profits adequately, ultimately end up with them leaving that country to those whom will reward them more fairly...

Housing providers??? How out of touch are they 😮

I have a decent landlord, but I’m turning 35 this year and I haven’t been able to save up enough enough to get my own mortgage because year on year the house prices have gone up.. So what’s my option?? I don’t want to spend the rest of my life paying someone else to live in their home! I don’t have the option to move back home or back to my other half home! Now they bring out a zero deposit mortgage, but I’m too old to qualify! I am honestly so depressed to think that I may have to spend the rest of my life in a rented property knowing at any minute my landlord could decide to sell up! My other half and I are in a small 1 bed flat in a not so great area, but we’re paying £800 a month and our landlord hasn’t yet put the rent up, but we’re feeling more and more like it’s inevitable… if we go for a better place I can guarantee it is going to be way more expensive meaning I won’t be able to save as much… So what are my options?? What do I do!? What do the people in my situation do! I’ve never had the “bank of mum and dad”! Neither has my other half! But we’ve both worked all our adult lives except 1 stint during the last financial crisis… I don’t know anyone who has bought their homes off their own backs, it’s always inheritance, mum and dads savings, used my student loan, gifted a house by my fiancés grandad etc. But I don’t have any of those things! I know there are people who have no right to say this, but I’m not one of them; I’ve had to work 10 times harder for everything than most people my age! And what’s my reward? What do I get to look back at and feel proud of when I’m in my 50’s and being evicted from my home because my landlord died and their kids want to sell the house so they can divide the money!? I was an estate agent and saw that actually happen because the kids couldn’t afford the inheritance tax so sold up and got what was left, leaving a poor 50+ year old man who had lived in the house that was his home for more than 20 years, struggling to find a new home! We managed to find him a nice small flat with a garden, but it turned out his up stairs neighbours were terrible people who lived off benefits but still had the money to party 5 nights a week! I can’t even move into a cheaper council flat because I’m gay, my partner and I signed up for a council flat 4 years ago, so we could save money on rent, but still nothing because we can’t have kids and will always get moved further down the list by a young, stupid couple who didn’t use any kind of protection one drunken night! My other half has 2 sisters who are in beautiful houses which they pay pennies for all because they got impregnated by some guy they don’t even see anymore! But there’s no option for us! Just pay extortionate rents for the rest of our lives!

4:15 - The Pareto Priciple or 80/20 rule is just bunk thinking based on Pareto's musings that 80% of the Italian land circa 1900 were owned by 20% of the population. He then noted that 20% of his plants were bearing 80% of the fruit. How does that explain anything? Dunno, but some nitwit management consultant decided to apply that same dumb logic to something else and it happened to align in his work. It somehow became popularized and now people use it to justify anything to absolve themselves or others of any type of blame or accountability. ... also landlords are needless parasites. If a person can afford to rent a house, then they can afford the mortgage payment and taxes on it without paying extra for some schlub to act as a middleman.

Serfs are paying over £800 a month for mouldy crxpy bedsits. £1000 - £1200 pcm if you want 2 rooms. Then claiming it's not worth it they will sell up. Sounds like BS to me. The maths don't add up in our Ecconomy. Rent trap is a soul killer.

Tom is even worse than a typical landlord hes turning family homes into HMOs...

I am an unintentional landlord and ended up renting after my Nan sold her house. Most tenants have been really good and I try to keep to all the regulations and do all the repairs. Selling up now though as it’s not worth it anymore. My monthly profit is around £400 per month (on two properties), and it’s often a part time job with repairs to do which I don’t have enough income to delegate it myself. If you struggle financially as a landlord, zero entitlement to any benefits for food etc. It’s not worth it anymore so selling up. I will be interested to see what happens when most landlords have sold which is what they are doing now. The end result is the landlords remaining can become very choosy, and anyone who cannot buy has to continue to rent in a market where there would be hardly any rental properties left. The government should force mortgage lenders to stick to a 3% interest rate like in the US and then also force people to be able to buy property with a good credit rating without any deposit or with a much smaller deposit. They should basically make it easier for everyone to buy and own a home.

Landlords are a leech on society. They destroy good first home's and turn them into 8 bedroom shoeboxes and destroy property values. My entire hometown is this. There are entire subdivisions in my town that are rentals or air BNB's. People are struggling to find affordable housing and what affordable housing they did make, it got taken up immediately because the demand is higher than the supply. When a single person owns multiple properties whilst there are those in society that don't have a roof over their head, then there is a systematic societal change that needs to happen. Most of these places are charging well over a grand a month for shitholes.

Yes the sooner the better, introduce a fair rent system

The problem in the UK is not landlords, it’s how home purchase loans are structured, 10% down and adjustable rate mortgages, insure instability in the housing market, contrast the U.S. where a home buyer can get a home loan with 3.5% down payment, with closing cost of about 3 to 3.5 % which the seller can pay, and a fixed rate for 30 years, which they can refinance any time the interest rate falls below their starting rate. Military veterans can buy with no money down and out of pocket cost of about $500.00 everything else can be paid by the seller. The UK system is broken because of the way you finance homes, add to that a planning system that makes it hard to build new homes.

I used to be a mortgage consultant and I remember the astonishing greed of some landlords, BTL's were literally like crack to them. They do not give a f&*k about the consequences of their actions upon wider society. These new 'influencers' make me want to spew, but unless Government starts building housing and establishes a regulatory framework which restricts these investment parasites then the problem will remain. And I have no confidence in either the Tories or Labour to do anything substantial about it.

Amazing It's truly a dream come true to be able to meet all of my needs without assistance from the government, and the returns on my $10,000 investment have been spectacular. Glorify Allah

I live next to a rented out house. The tenants, for the most part, are absolutely fine, but the landlord is typically absent! I’ve lived here for 17 years and not once have they contributed to the shared costs of maintaining terraced properties, eg, clearing/cleaning gutters, shared driveway, water courses. They constantly move agents, who have successively been over 200 miles away. Sometimes, even the tenants don’t know who’s running it! I have never seen the owner!

Landlords make money by taking advantage of people that can’t afford to buy a house. That’s not good or bad that’s the business model but don’t try and dress it up into some noble activity and pretend you are trying to help people. Using capital to buy houses and rent them out doesn’t produce a dynamic economy. Also, the dream of everyone becoming a landlord is a joke as landlords need a pool of people that are forced to rent otherwise they would buy their own place

Landlords ARE THE PROBLEM! They do not provide housing, house builders do. They raise the house prices by hoarding properties and they raise their rents because they can. I never rented, I purchased some properties while I still can aford them just so that I or my kids never have to deal with landlords for the rest of my and their lifes.

Adam Smith, Henry George and chairman Mao what do they have in common, they all knew that landlords have less value then actual horseshit.

Most landlords don’t even do jobs on the homes and the tenants suffer, there is loads of bad landlord, if a landlord is keeping the property up to standard then they are a good landlord, it’s literally that simple

I was growing up in a country with no landlords at all and somehow everything was fine. Nobody needs landlords. People need affordable housing. I am exhausted of living in a city where everybody is so poor because all their salaries go towards rent. Nobody is creative anymore. People give up respectable professions and become stupid influencers in order to buy themselves a house. I can see so many homeless on the streets of London, people with mental condition, giving up on work completely because there is no hope anymore. I personally gave up full time employment and went on housing benefit because my soul was crushed by having to work hard for years just to pay rent and no matter how much I worked I couldn't catch up with the house prices. We keep loosing such professionals as teachers, nurses even doctors because the only profession which will give you some kind of quality life is being a landlord, banker, scammer or politician. If I have to work just to pay rent I would rather stay on benefits and build something on the side.

What i find so difficult to understand is why if you can afford to rent you are not considered financially suitable to have a mortgage. I think the way out would be 4 fold. First build more good quality houses of all sizes and prices. Secondly governments should provide/back a mortgage for everyone. Homes must be live in. Finally all those with more than 1 home including landlords unless that home is registered company should be heavily penalised. Homes are for living in not as a safe store of wealth.

Everyone should be able to buy a property. Landlords and sky high rents prevent that.

Okay, can literally ANYONE explain how landlords 'exiting the market' will result in less houses to live in? No one ever explains how that's supposed to work, and at this stage I think it's just some empty threat to make it sound like these people are needed. If a landlord sells their property, someone else still presumably buys it, and either lives there or lets it out, it's not like that house just disappears to thin air. Perhaps I'm naïve, but I would assume that these small scale landlords are complaining that bigger landlords are buying up those houses, or are they just so salty they can't stand former renters getting their own homes and exiting the rental market where they used to pay off other people's mortgages? How is this such a bad thing? Or am I just not seeing something so obvious?

Look like the rental market is about the same in the UK as it is here in the US.

Landlords and estate agents are just ripping people off full stop.The greed in the UK is like a disease .

The man says it all. 'If you are not making a profit..whats the point?' The point is where private business ends..and government housing begins.

So basically more social housing is needed. More houses built, managed by councils, means more affordable rents, a home for everyone, and no more exploitation of tenants by private landlords.

History shows that humans seem to be overcoming exploitation, however slowly, at least since the Enlightenment. Slavery, a reality for so long, was finally deposed in recent centuries, for example. I hope to see employers and landlords be replaced by partners in business and universal basic services for all so that nobody is left economically vulnerable to exploitation by people who don't want to work for a living and would rather exploit their less fortunate brothers and sisters. We need an economy based on creativity, not exploitation. If you are a landlord you should feel ashamed of yourself because you are essentially a slaver.

The issue I have with landlords is the increase in rent every year even whne they have done zero to the property or because they want to get the max from that area. Its greedy.

If being landlords are a good business, from which government keeps attacking them, why does not government expand their rental business of social housing? It is a deflection of government's failure to meet supply- and we as tenants fall for it!

All landlords are not rich. Some just need help to make ends meet.

Maybe have some kind of state owned properties which are properly maintained and have regulated rent? Oh yeah we used to have that til Conservatives ran it into the ground and flogged it all off! So the answer is for government to build decent eco homes for the rent. The private sector has shown it cannot be trusted

This is the problem with this hustle grind culture, people at the bottom come to lose.

The main problem all over the Western world is the same. Governments have not built enough homes. If there were more supply than demand then prices would go down and there would be little profit for landlords because most people would have either bought their own home or could be renting off the Government/Council. Its all governments fault. When will the British people vote into power intelligent people who will represent them???

Why shud we pay landlord renter house mortgage if he want 2 houses then pay mortgage on 2 houses dont rent out to csuse suffering and financial pressures on unsuspecting renters landlords live in high profile homes evety luxury items wen his wife want new car kitchen etc who pays the tenants cos he hikes up rent 2/3 times rent amount being paid

Great video! For 2023, it’s hard to nail down specific predictions for the housing market is because it’s not yet clear how quickly or how much the Federal Reserve can bring down inflation and borrowing costs without tanking buyer demand for everything from homes to cars.

Private landlords need to be banned. They’ve completely destroyed the housing market, pushed prices up & iced first time homeowners out of the market. The fact that this has been allowed to go on for so long is disgraceful.

My first house was purchased in early 90's when interest rate was 13 percent.... it took about 70 percent of my primary paycheck and I had to work a secondary job at weekends to survive and both were low pay! However, given the lack of affordable private Rental property and the huge waiting lists for government Rental property the only option was to dive into ownership. Gutted all my bank accounts and savings and sold all my assets for a downpayment, then slept on a secondhand mattress on the floor of one room in the property with a fire since no other rooms had heating or were liveable. No water to the washroom and one faucet that I plumbed straight from the incoming water pipe and no electricity - that hovel was all I could afford! Well, that and a busted up old motorcycle. This is not the first Rental crisis or cost of living crisis - we have been here before... and sometimes worse. If the Government had not sold off all the subsidised Rental stock or had built replacement mass Rental housing stock afterwards, then things would look much better with private landlords taking up the more niche properties which dont fit into the large scale Rental housing model to provide choice. The Rental crisis is not that we have too many private landords but that the Goverment has built no large scale standardised mass Rental housing stock to deal with the most basic housing requirements of an ever increasing (even with declining birth rate) population who have need of affordable accomodation.

I’m confused. People are asking for affordable homes, no matter it’s for renting or buying. Isn’t that the responsibility of the government? How come they shift the focus to landlords? They are in the free market. The landlords can mark skyrocketing price and no tenants are interested in them. This is a supply and demand problem. However, the affordable rental housing should be protby the government. The landlords are not serving for the citizens.

landlords are parasites, its tenants who pay the property bank mortgage, the property taxes, the agency fees, commissions and a profit for the landlord which often is close enough to live without working or rent for themselves other property at expenses of tenants renting their own property, these are the type of people who want others to pay high values but themselves want pay nothing, 90% of tenants pay in full the owner initial investment in purchasing the property on the first 2 years, 93% of landlords don't actually own the property but instead its the bank who owns the property, majority of landlords today expected to live forever from a 10 to 20 k GBP investment they made 10-15 years ago, majority of landlords did not made their initial investment through hard work but somehow got their cake lump some in a way that never was disclosed, climbing into the property ladder literally is climbing into another mans shoulder and these people have the audacity to act in a way they were doing tenants a favor, if what they were doing was moral, no landlord would feel embarrassed for who they are, parasites

How about Dwelling Scalpers? How's that for a rebrand?

How many of those good landlords fight tooth and nail against any legislation that offers some sort of security for tenants. Those landlords who claim personal responsibility are first make sure that their tenants are responsible for paying off their investment while failing to provide any value to the tenant commensurate with the rent increases. It's all one way. The term parasite seems pretty accurate.

Landlords are SCUM and James is an excellent example. Good lord what a despicable piece of work.

Maybe if Thatcher hadn't sold off all the public housing and then the government hadn't lowered the rate of social housing construction we wouldn't have this problem. As it stands, we will need millions of homes built if this crisis is to ever end.

Why doesnt the government take the property ownership from the landlords and give the ownership to the tennets ? Problem solved

Here is the loophole I experienced… “I want more rent, no? Ok, then I am going to sell, and I am evicting you now.” Within 5 working days of me being evicted the flat was being advertised for rent again… “landlord changed his mind…” easy as that, landlords and letting agents are co conspirators.

It is crazy that landlords think they are not causing the problem

A key piece of information underpinning the housing crisis is the increased rate of immigration- largely young people who base themselves in the larger urban areas and need to rent/can't buy. 600,000 net immigration last year, 500,000 in '21. It's just an objective fact that this massively drives up demand; eating up the supply and driving up price, and also sadly meaning standards and repairs are able to be given less priority by some landlords. It shouldn't matter where you identify on the political sliding scale, it's a primary causal piece of information. It's very telling and unprofessional that it hasn't been mentioned here, unless the people making this video are very uninformed or naive

Imagine living in a house with so many other people no wonder no one. Is not having kids

Just keep working, find a companion and live life one day at the time, or keep watching the videos of these social media clowns and lose your mind

Maybe we can rebrand them with a hot iron

"I renovate everything to a high standard, so my tenants are happy". Yeah, son. That's precisely the reason you decided to make an investment in property. To make tenants happy. SMH. Next he'll be telling us landlords provide a service.........

Holding onto houses and renting them for more than they would cost in a mortgage is the most predatory, unethical thing ever

The market is a function of supply and demand. An increase in demand will increase prices of homes and rents, but an increase in supply will lower them. The past few generations have been discouraged from learning trades, but that’s the very thing that will increase the housing supply. Regulations have increased the time to build and driven out investment. The things that lower demand are higher rates, a declining population and regulation allowing more tenants per property/lot. The “villains” are politicians and central banks. Most people who invest in property end up becoming a handyman and property manager and marketer - finding tenants, fixing, and renovating the home for the rest of their lives - I’m sure they’d rather just a pension and a reasonable retirement age.

More public housing or general housing would mean ppl aren’t reliant on landlords and it would lower the cost of housing.

The only thing that I learned from watching this 10 minute puff piece of yours, @Channel 4 News, is that some of those landlords that were shown have now rebranded themselves as 'influencers' rather than them being exactly what they are, i.e. opportunistic, greedy, profiteering parasites. If any of them are so concerned about housing people then they should have just one property other than their own homes and be content to rent that extra property out, shouldn't they? To answer your question about whether or not I hate my landlord then the answer to that is an emphatic no, this is because I rent my home through a Housing Association and they're terrific when it comes to repairs, modernisation and the upkeep of all of the properties that they own which number in the hundreds throughout the northwest and northeast of England. I've lived in my current home for almost 7 and a half years and despite the fact that I was in arrears on my rent for the first couple of months through no fault of my own - I had to wait that length of time for my Housing Benefit to be sorted out, they were very patient and it eventually got sorted out with my Local Authority and I've never been in arrears since then. As things are now I receive full Housing Benefit which means that I pay nothing in the way of rent for my bungalow and this has been the case since early 2016; my Housing Benefit is paid directly to them and I never hear from them when there's any problem with it....they sort it out between themselves and my Local Authority which keeps me out of the loop; this even happens when my rent increases annually in early April. In fact the rent was actually reduced for the first three years that I was living here which means that I've only had reasonable increases in it since 2019 or so. Prior to moving here I was living in a privately rented house and my two landlords were more intent on getting my money out of me than they were about doing repairs. Just as an example I had to wait over three years for them to install central heating in that property and a further two years for them to install double glazing - even when I left that house they still hadn't managed to finish the job and have modern doors fitted even though I'd lived there for over 17 and a half years. Furthermore I got evicted from that house by them for no good reason and shortly after that happened I went back to visit some friends in my old neighbourhood and saw that the same property that I'd lived in for all that time was fully modernised and had a 'For Sale' sign attached to its outside wall. Why wasn't I surprised at seeing that when it came to them? Is it any wonder that I hate private landlords such as those shown in this short video of yours and also my own ex-private landlords?

In Canada it's hard to find a private landlord and these management companies ask for up to 2yrs rent up front, the one with the most rent up front gets the place. The application process is like a mortgage application leaving your personal information at risk before knowing if you get the place. They demand application fees that are non refundable and ILLEGAL.. Rent has doubled tripled and quadrupled depending on where you want to live. It's really bad. Our government has invited millions from India so we are outnumbered in town here. Homeless seniors and disabled people on the rise something we've never seen before and turdo plans to invite millions more with absolutely no plan for the housing and basic necessities of these People! Many are now also arriving by walking in from USA.. We already have a huge homeless population that hasn't been addressed and even on some of the coldest nights of the winter, the government does nothing for the homeless Canadians but I haven't seen any Muslims sleeping on the streets yet in our town.. It's insane! At least with private landlords you can sometimes appeal to their humane side. With management companies they do not care. You could have the saddest story and misfortune and still they're going to give the unit to the one who has more money to put down on it. Having good credit and references is nice you have to have that too,, but money talks.. And they don't follow the landlord and tenant act. They just do whatever they want and nobody stops them..

Do you call yourself a landlord? No. I am a landlord but people judge me for being a landlord so I rebranded. Do you call yourself a nonce? No. I am a nonce but people judge you for being a nonce so I rebranded. I don't see much difference.