This is an absolute clown show. Landlords are now being offered money to house migrants for five year contracts.
The Home Office has launched a new initiative for private landlords to house channel migrants. Serco are one of the private contractors working with the Home Office on this.
Now, of course, the funding for it will come from, well, you guessed it, us, the taxpayers.
As an accidental landlord, myself and I only own one home. By the way, I rent this out because I don’t fancy living where it is. I’m a tenant in my current house, so I get to look at this nonsense from both sides.
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And even I, as a landlord, am tempted. So as a struggling landlord, because there is literally no profit in the private rented sector after successive governments have withdrawn pretty much every incentive. Imagine being offered a higher rent, which I suspect will be the case as it has been thus far.
Imagine being offered what will inevitably be guaranteed rent over five years, with the promise that the place will be left in good order on its return.
And unlike in the case of the Renters Reform Bill, which went through the committee stage this week, you as a landlord, by the sound of it, won’t be saddled with the tenants forever unless you want to sell. And if you do plan to sell and usurp your tenants, then if the sale falls through you won’t find yourself having to fund an empty property for 12 months, because those will be the new rules.
When the new Renters Reform bill becomes an act later this year, the exodus of private landlords will be put on hold for the next five years at least, whilst they take advantage of the scheme on offer as a landlord.
This proposition is music to my ears – why wouldn’t I or any other landlord not just kick out their current tenants whilst they still can, and then use and take one of these asylum contracts?
The problem here is that not only does this have the ability to raise the cost of renting, but it means that those currently in private rented accommodation could end up on the streets. And as we know, whilst the benefit system can be very generous if you play it right, there’s a queue for homes, and British people are at the back of it and pay for the privilege to be there.
So, alongside smashing the gangs, Labour promise to empty the migrant hotels, gaslighting you and I into believing that this meant that there would be fewer migrants. Instead, it is clear that what they actually meant by reducing the use of hotels, which hasn’t happened either because the number has gone up.
What they actually meant was that they would perform more of a shuffling of the deckchairs exercise, taking homes away from British people who’ve lived, worked and paid tax here in favour of illegal migrants. You couldn’t make it up.
Landlords will apparently be invited to an event in a four star hotel next month. And there they’ve even launched a website with the heading Calling All Landlords.
The Government would argue that it is ten times cheaper housing migrants privately, but that’s just looking at the straightforward cost, not the cost to the British people or our way of life.
Frankly, we’ve all had enough. The only answer is to stop the boats. Everything else is window dressing.
