| Comment | The real problem is the lack of social housing. Thatcher managed to successfully persuade everyone that social housing is only for people on benefits, arranged for all the good stuff to be sold off, and it's carried this ridiculous stigma ever since because in everyone's heads social housing = tower blocks.
The demand for rental housing should be met by large volumes of decent quality social housing, and where private rentals exist, they should carry the same kinds of regulation that we see e.g. in France and Germany with rent controls etc. This should also include enforced requirements about insulation quality etc.
The absence of these things is not the fault of shitty private landlords, they are merely the symptom of our fucked up housing sector. |
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