Shelter warns families living in fear of eviction as new campaign video released

The housing charity and bank claim the video titled ‘Our House’ shows the realities for families living in “grotty-unsafe temporary accommodation where vital repairs go undone for months.”

NB the use of temp accommodation is limited to 6 weeks only. Any longer and that’s the Council’s problem entirely.

Reply to the comment left by Reluctant Landlord at 08/09/2025 – 13:15
The condition of temporary housing is nothing to do with private landlords.

#Boycott HSBC

Perhaps a new video with the same tune with different lyrics..

Our tenant, he says he will not pay the rent
Our tenant, because of his outgoings, says his money’s already spent 🎶

If Shelter thinks it’s so easy. Why don’t they use some of their fifty three million pounds a year of income to purchase the odd property. Show us all how it should be done.

Stop Bitching. Do something useful.

Reply to the comment left by northern landlord at 08/09/2025 – 11:41
Totally true, After seeing this, I’m sorry to say that I still hold an HSBC account.

What makes it worse is that the Hull city council know of 2 families living in a 2 bed house in Hull, where 1 family consists of 2, what is about to be 3 children and a mother and 2 large dogs living in a single room. and another family living in another room, I don’t know how many people in the other room.

I’m sure that this is a PRS house, they refuse to help out or do anything about it. They seem to say that its not their problem and the house is not overcrowded.

They are just turning a blind eye to it as they don’t want to pay. Hull must be a labour constituency?

It is very simple. I’ll wrote this slowly so that those at Shelter (who don’t house anybody) might understand.

If you make being a landlord more difficult, more families will lose their homes. If not to Section 21, it will be Section 8.

Different vehicle, longer route, same destination.

If you make being a landlord more difficult, fewer homes will be bought. If fewer homes are bought, house builders will build fewer homes.

Reply to the comment left by Desert Rat at 09/09/2025 – 05:08
Also councils also do not have to stick to rules regarding occupancy levels BECAUSE the accommodation they provide is temporary. This means they can and do over stuff spaces with too many people – and as a result of having less capacity, those people then in turn stay longer than that 6 week mandated period….

Once housing officer I used to deal with said my two bed flat, if used for temp accommodation, would be filled with at least a family unit of 5 or 6. Three in each bedroom is not unusual and the size of the room is not taken into consideration either.
The lounge area (with kitchen off not in a separate room) could also be used for sleeping at least 2.

Aawab’s Law when imposed on temp accommodation I presume is looking to stop this – you can’t have a law to stop the (majority) of cases of condensation and mould if you keep temp housing people like chickens with lack of space.

Reply to the comment left by Reluctant Landlord at 09/09/2025 – 08:06
Surely with the proposed abolition of a fixed term, any Landlord, if they wished could provide ‘temporary’ accommodation on that very same basis.

There would be more breaches of licensing as the goalposts have changed; there will be more exploitation of tenants, overcrowding and living conditions.

It seems there is one rule for councils and another for the private sector and yet the Renters Rights Bill is giving Councils more power to enforce penalties onto Landlords not sticking to the rules. “Do as I say, not as I do”

YAWN!
More deluded nonsense from political activists who house nobody.
Shameful that HSBC fall for this in a sad attempt to deny responsibility for the corporate takeover of housing and protection of their leverage as a lender as that direction is so obviously not in the tenants or owners interest.
Of course banks are happy for asset backed lending to own the risk that Monetary Policy Committee sets interest rates three weekly yet Reform Bill ensures one Section 13 per year so owners have to deal with costs outside their control while banks continue to profit.