PASSPORT · WHAT THIS ROOM DID
Why can working people no longer afford a home here?
Every line is from the record. Nothing is computed for this page, and nothing is smoothed: a short list of disagreements means a room that agreed, not a room whose disagreements were tidied away.
| structures | obstacles |
| opened | 08 Sep 2026 |
| who answered | 30 people in 2 group(s) · participant: 30 |
| wrote blind | not recorded |
| claims | 36 written, 20 structured |
| links certified | 19 |
| rooms on this question | 3 · counts toward the shared map |
| decided at | 75% of the votes cast |
| sealed | yes, members forgotten |
What it rests on- Nobody knows what the flat next door pays
- The owner is a company in another country
- Rents are set by what the last desperate person agreed to
- Reporting a landlord takes a year and you have moved by then
- Nobody enforces the standards that already exist
- Empty flats are worth more than let ones to some owners
What it could not settlePublished as contested, never recorded as a no.
- none: every pair the room reached was settled
What was predicted to followWritten after the map settled. Nobody voted on it.
- A public register of who owns every rented home — expected: a tenant can find out who owns the home they live in — due 25 Sep 2027
What the room would doEach action judged against each root cause, at three quarters of the votes cast.
- Fund one inspector per five thousand homes
reduces no root cause - A public register of who owns every rented home
reduces: The owner is a company in another country - End the guarantor requirement for anyone in work
reduces: Nobody knows what the flat next door pays · split: The owner is a company in another country
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