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    Landlord serves eviction notices to 150 tenants weeks before Christmas
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    Landlord serves eviction notices to 150 tenants weeks before Christmas

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    1. attempted-catharsis on

      Shows that Labour is absolutely right to ban the practice. Only mistake was not putting out a ban effective immediately.

    2. LazarusOwenhart on

      And yet, somehow, the Telegraph still manages to smear a thin veneer of “It’s Labour’s fault,” throughout the article.

    3. socratic-meth on

      > Councillors and the local MP Vicky Foxcroft have demanded a meeting with landlords Aitch Group, founded by property and payday loan tycoon Henry Smith.

      Tycoon… or parasite.

    4. k3nn3h on

      150 people who’ll no longer need to live under the yoke of parasite landlords! This is exactly what we wanted, right?

    5. wsb_crazytrader on

      It’s the fault of coward politicians.

      Build housing, forget about chasing the poll numbers. We are getting to the point where the whole economy suffers due to the fact that an increasing number of people who are productive find themselves working in the most expensive areas.

      Therefore, my opinion is that this incentivises stagnation – why would I move to the city to work as an architect when I could become a tattoo artist or bakery manager in Aylesbury? At the end of the day, the money left is roughly the same, but the mind is less stressed.

      Edit: seethe tankies. Business owners didn’t get this powerful without gutless politicians acting as a doormat

    6. Tricky_Peace on

      What’s the play here? You evict all those people, fine, it an asshole move, but in a few months time you’ll have a lot of empty properties, and you’ll need to put in tenants, who’ll be protected from section 21.

      I don’t see the benefit unless they intend to sell and redevelop, but they’ll need planning permission for that.

    7. dbbk on

      Not being funny but he gave them the notice he’s required to, why legally should it matter if it’s close to Christmas or not? Do we have a moratorium on anything else around that time?

    9. Electronic-Trip8775 on

      I wonder how many of these landlords aren’t paying tax on their earnings…they leech but don’t pay what they should in income

    10. R4BLR on

      Companies/corporations/investment groups buying up residential housing and letting it out should be banned. There is a housing crisis and property prices and the cost of rent won’t become affordable whilst profit can be made extorting the most vulnerable. Limit or cap the private ownership of properties – holiday lets, multiple holiday homes being bought up and pricing locals out of where they grew up.

    11. Cheap-Report on

      Any particular reason why an eviction notice in December is worse than any other time of the year?
      Why does Christmas come into the equation?

    12. amarrly on

      They’ve got to take housing of the stock market, since RIETs housing in the west (this aint just a British thing), has exploded. Stock markets are brutal.

    13. phil035 on

      Ok it wont let me post the screenshot but you can see the readership split for the telegraph buy the poll results. 77% against the scrapping of no fault evictions

    15. ChocolateLeibniz on

      Reading this is so triggering. I hate that we have just become numbers and figures on some investors chart and not human beings who just want to live, work and breathe with simple comforts. I feel so bad for all of them, the council will dump the tenants with children in Travelodge’s all over the city and fob everyone else off to the next greedy investor landlord.

    16. Three_Trees on

      We should not have private landlords with hundreds of properties on the books. We need to tax this into oblivion.

    19. Froeeeeeeewayyy on

      I’m a landlord (waiting for the downvotes) and it’s cunts like these that make me look like a cunt. I have raised the rent once in 10 years, I work full time myself and the property barely pays for its self. I want rid. I’m not a cunt. I rented because I was not sure a relationship would work out and needed a bolt hole. Now labour makes it really unappealing to sell because I am vilified.