Shelter blames landlords for rent hikes as tenants struggle with housing costs

Rent increases for demand and added cost they have insisted on! If I purchase an ice cream I am charged for it. If I then add a flake to make it a 99 I am charged more. If I ask for 100s and 1000s and syrup it is even more. In 35 years I have never had any major complaint yet burdens are being passed on to me and according to Shelter should not be passed on to tenant

Service charges have gone through the metaphoric roof, our cladding rectification project is now wholly developer funded but many management costs are not allowable, how about Shelter capaining for finance costs to be deductible like any other business.

so what’s new?

They have to be seen to be campaigning purely for tenants at any cost. The irony – the true cost is at the complete detriment to the tenant.

“The housing charity claims the government must cap rent increases in line with inflation or wage growth to make renting more affordable.”

1. The cost of anything privately provided cannot be ‘capped’. It is market driven.
2. renting will never be ‘more affordable’. Its either affordable or not – based on income.
3. Wage growth is irrelevant if someone is on state handouts so unless the state raises the housing allowance, there is always going to be a mismatch when someone wants to CHOOSE to rent privately.

A Problem Caused by The Government.
No problem with Tenants finding and affording a rental property prior to 2016.

I blame Tescos for the high food prices
Nothing to do with past and present governments.
It’s just as ridiculous comment as Shelter.
Do Shelter think all tenants are stupid and gullible, shame on Shelter that do not supply any shelter.

Rents are high because costs are high. Costs are high because so-called charities encourage government to make costs higher.

Oh, how they laugh when landlords are taxed more, forced to comply with more expensive regulation and take on more risk. Do they not understand that it must be the customer that pays in the end.

Rents are high, risks are high but profits are low.

It’s market driven prices. Rent is costs + profit margin, often around 6%. If they want rent to go down, they need to cut the costs, even if landlords made no profit the rent would still be unaffordable. If you want to cap rent, do it on social housing, something that you can control.

Ah, but wait, the waiting lists are now over 100 years in some London councils! They sold off the housing over 3-4 decades and look what happens.

Once Labour have built their 1.5 million social homes all these problems will be a thing of the past.. only joking. Once Labour have driven out most small landlords, not built any homes themselves and found that the returns are not high enough to attract private investment this period will become known as ‘the good old days’..

Reply to the comment left by Northernpleb at 19/05/2025 – 11:34
All part of the plan I’m afraid. Give landlords a beating and then beat them again for doing their best to cope with the first beating. Classic gaslighting and bullying behaviour done on a national scale.

Reply to the comment left by Jonathan Willis at 20/05/2025 – 18:10The rot started when Maggie refused to allow Councils to build replacement houses for those they sold through Right to Buy, using those revenues causing rental housing to reduce, forcing up prices