| Comment | The alternative is to reform housing in the UK. That would start more regulation - rent control, not allowing landlords to own unlimited properties for the sole purpose of renting them out. More rights for tenants. The building of more social housing, and having stricter and more enforceable rules on property developers who have to include a higher percentage of **actually** affordable housing on new builds.
For sure, earning an ongoing flow of passive income sounds great - but at the expense of exploiting someone else, and perpetuating a market that continues to rise for renters whilst the cost of living keeps going up and wages generally stay stagnant? No thank you.
Everybody should have access to secure, affordable social housing should they need it and it should be much easier to get on to the property ladder and buy a home.
As long as the housing market is allowed to continue unregulated, the more dire society is going to become - higher poverty rates and miserable people. |
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