THE QUESTION
Why can working people no longer afford a home here?
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CLUSTER 1
Nobody will rent to you without three months up front
6 votesdiscuss
You cannot register with a doctor without an address
Scope: here specifically, not everywhere.
0 votesdiscuss
CLUSTER 2
One late payment ends a tenancy and starts a record
I mean this happens weekly, not once in a while.
0 votesdiscuss
Children change school every time the tenancy ends
Narrower than it reads; the wider version is someone else's card.
4 votesdiscuss
CLUSTER 3
The only leverage a tenant has is leaving
2 votesdiscuss
Complaining about damp gets you a section notice
1 votesdiscuss
CLUSTER 4
The people who decide have never been served a notice
2 votesdiscussing (1)
The word 'housing crisis' is used by people who own two
0 votesdiscuss
CLUSTER 5
There is no register of who owns what
Observed, not measured — I would want the data too.
4 votesdiscuss
You are asked for a guarantor who owns property
2 votesdiscuss
NOT CLUSTERED
A viewing is forty people in a corridor
I mean this happens weekly, not once in a while.
2 votesdiscuss
Nobody enforces the standards that already exist
7 votesdiscuss
Being evicted once makes the next tenancy harder to get
Narrower than it reads; the wider version is someone else's card.
2 votesdiscuss
A tenants' association is treated as a nuisance
0 votesdiscuss
The agent charges both sides and represents neither
1 votesdiscuss
Benefit is paid a month late and arrears are grounds for eviction
0 votesdiscuss
The owner is a company in another country
4 votesdiscuss
People stay in a bad flat because moving is worse
1 votesdiscuss
Building anything takes years of permissions
I mean this happens weekly, not once in a while.
13 votesdiscuss
Rents are set by what the last desperate person agreed to
Scope: here specifically, not everywhere.
12 votesdiscuss
Migrants are asked for documents the law does not require
Scope: here specifically, not everywhere.
1 votesdiscuss
Reporting a landlord takes a year and you have moved by then
5 votesdiscuss
The flat is cold because the landlord pays no heating bill
6 votesdiscuss
We are the majority here and have no seat anywhere
3 votesdiscuss
A guarantee requirement excludes anyone whose parents rent
1 votesdiscuss
Nobody has ever asked us what would fix it
10 votesdiscuss
Every move costs a month's rent in fees and vans
2 votesdiscuss
Rents rise faster than wages every year
I mean this happens weekly, not once in a while.
6 votesdiscuss
Empty flats are worth more than let ones to some owners
14 votesdiscuss
Nobody knows what the flat next door pays
2 votesin focus ↑ · close ✕
Half my street is students and the other half is short lets
9 votesdiscuss
Nobody can afford to live where the work is
15 votesdiscuss
My rent pays someone else's mortgage on the flat I live in
To be precise: this is about the situation, not a person.
0 votes
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discussNobody in my building knows their neighbours
Narrower than it reads; the wider version is someone else's card.
7 votesdiscuss
The council has four inspectors for forty thousand homes
0 votesdiscuss
The cheapest flats have the highest bills
0 votesdiscuss