Landlord slams selective licensing as cause of Nottingham’s homelessness crisis

You couldn’t make it up;

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Nadia Whittome is a typical Labour ideological Marxist who neither gets nor wish to be educated about the truth or reality on ground. It is sad that we have clueless people like her running the country.

Reply to the comment left by Monty Bodkin at 30/10/2025 – 10:11
Ha ha yes, we’d be getting 30k fine.

I’m in a similar situation. I only rent two rooms in my 3/4 bedroom house to avoid applying for an HMO licence and to keep council tax down by letting to students. But international student numbers have dropped a lot — maybe 75% since last year — and it’s hitting my income hard.

I pay the mortgage (£640), plus water and internet, and it’s becoming unsustainable. The council’s rules make it hard for small landlords like me to keep going. Renting to families feels too risky, but renting to students isn’t working either. I’m just holding on for now, hoping house prices go up before I decide whether to sell.

Lucky I don’t have selective licence yet to pay…

There has always been a section of society who will never own there own home, first there were slums, then they were housed in social housing but right to buy put paid to that. Then Government’s decide to put landlords out of business by increasing costs through regulation and taxes resulting in unaffordable rents. Why are Government’s so blinkered to see that the housing crisis, our crumbling economy caused by homelessness, and immigration was all created by Government policies? Our self sabotaging Government’s will not stop until they have destroyed our once loved and admired Country.

When you destroy the supply but increase demand then inevitably the system collapses. Osbourne started the attack with removing interest relief but Labour are continuing the war. Ive sold all my larger 4 bedroom family properties to off shore investors that are converting them to HMOs for asylum seekers. The maths is undeniable. The total income from a family of four is less than a quarter of the income from the same property split into HMOs.

I had a house in Nottingham that I let out (students) for one year, by then I had had enough of the council and sold it. Mick you get my sympathies, you need to sell up and bugger the tenants

Reply to the comment left by GlanACC at 02/11/2025 – 08:04
I’m trying to sell, while at same time trying to keep the tenants safe.
Completed on 18 sales so far since Jan. Hopefully another 10 by end Dec.
The numbers aren’t adding up for new Landlords though on the rest of the houses where rent not enough to keep new Landlord happy. Where Muggins here been undercharging for years.

I only have one property within the Nottingham Selective Licensing Scheme area, and I can confirm that I passed the entire cost of the licence to my tenant, who had to give me notice after 10 years as she could no longer afford the rent.
Nevertheless, she left me a wonderful thank you note, as she loved the property I had rented to her, and understood the reasons why I had raised the rent.
She isn’t homeless as she managed to obtain a new place under a sheltered accommodation scheme because of her disabilities (mostly exaggerated as that’s what people do nowadays), but of course that means that somewhere else in the system another person hasn’t got that place.
As for my house that requires a licence, well I’ve stuck my son in here as he was cluttering up my own home and since he can’t be bothered to get off his ar*e, the Council pay his rent and Council Tax. So it hasn’t freed up a home for rent, it’s just given me one of the rooms back in my own home. Congratulations Nottingham Selective Licensing for achieving sweet nothing.

Yes Nottingham Council Selective Licensing has made that many homeless, the homeless side knows it. Yet the Councillors who have overseen Homeless section and the Licensing section refuse to acknowledge it