| Comment | If you look back my issue was with someone literally saying ‘abolish landlordism, give it to people who have nothing.’ This is what I have an issue with. I don’t actually have anything against making becoming a landlord less profitable.
Your suggestions would indeed make it less desirable and I don’t have an issue with some legislating to discourage investors owning huge property portfolios etc.
However, it would also make building new property significantly less desirable and to solve the issue of not enough affordable housing is building more of it primarily.
Capping rents in the West End, for example, isn’t going to make more flats available, it would probably make them less available since many would get a rent cut and would be more likely to stay put. |
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