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City’s rents soar as council licensing schemes backfire, landlord claims

A landlord who provides homes to hundreds of homeless benefit tenants says council licensing schemes are making rents rocket and forcing people onto the streets.
Mick Roberts, Nottingham’s biggest private provider for this group, told the Notting…

Shelter slams the prospect of charity fines for handing out tents

Homeless charity Shelter has hit out at the prospect of charities being fined for dishing out tents to homeless people under government plans – which could be revealed in tomorrow’s King’s Speech, the Sunday Times reveals.
The paper q…

How Shelter helped my tenant become homeless

As a landlord, I recently faced a difficult situation with one of my tenants, a 68-year-old man who was struggling with drug addiction and had fallen severely behind on rent payments. Despite my efforts to work with him, I had to use a section 8 evicti…

Lloyds Bank slams landlords as it creates new lettings agency

Lloyds Bank says that because landlords offer ‘poor and exclusionary practices’, they are teaming up with the homeless charity Crisis to start a new lettings agency.
It says the new venture ‘will be fair for tenants and fair for landl…

Scottish government urged to declare a ‘national housing crisis’

A Conservative MSP is calling on the Scottish Government to declare a ‘national housing crisis’ after it was revealed that 47,000 people are homeless in the country.
The data from the Scottish government also reveals that 30,000 people are …

Shelter says 271,000 people were homeless in 2022

The homeless charity Shelter says there were ‘at least’ 271,000 people who were homeless on any given night last year because of rising living costs and private rents.
The charity is warning that thousands of people are at risk of losing their homes th…

NRLA unveils tie-up with homelessness charity

It might come as a surprise to many landlords, but the National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) has announced a new partnership with Crisis, the national charity for homeless people that has, in recent months, criticised landlords in the priva…

Council slammed after moaning about its 8,000-strong homeless list

A frustrated landlord has hit out after a council revealed that the housing crisis in their city is so bad that 8,000 households are waiting for a home – but they won’t engage with local landlords to help resolve the issue.
The post Council…

Why do we value Asylum Seekers more than British homeless?

Hello, This is another of those strange anomalies/priorities which make little sense. We pick up thousands of asylum seekers in boats crossing the channel and some have no right to be here.
We’ve all seen reports of the overcrowded centres where …

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