I proprietari saranno costretti a rendere le case una temperatura “sicura” in futuro, dice il segretario agli alloggi a LBC
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/landlords-to-be-forced-to-make-homes-a-safe-temperature-in-future-housing-secret-5HjdFwY_2/
di tylerthe-theatre
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“Next year, the second phase of the new laws will expand tenant protections from more hazards, like fire, electrical risks, and hygiene.”
It’s stark to think that in 2025 that we give all pensioners with an income of under £30,000 a year, hundreds of pounds towards their heating costs yet if you’re a renter it requires numerous governments creations of new laws to make sure your landlord has taken enough steps to ensure you aren’t burnt to death.
Remember this the next time some boomer moans that we don’t do enough for them as a country.
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Fucking hell. How are they supposed to do that. They can’t make the tenant turn the heating on! Plus in the summer top floor flats have alsorts of regulations around windows. Plus you can’t just mod in air conditioning. This is a nightmare. You have legislation butting against each other here.
It makes sense to me, one of those that makes you wonder why it wasn’t already the case.
I recall reading about the London slums before the expansion of social housing, that state social housing helped the market because it was so much better than slums that landlords couldn’t compete. No regulation required, just “hold my beer” energy wiped out a class of rentseekers.
Whereas because there’s no readily available supply of good/basic quality housing landlords are no longer incentivised to offer more than a shitbox.
I *suppose* if we’re playing devil’s advocate, if we want money going into providing private housing (whether redeveloping, build-to-rent or redevelop-to-rent) instead of commercial lets, we don’t want to signal a hostile environment to investors.
But ultimately it’s one of those ‘obviously should already be like that’.
My last flat was cold as fuck in the winter because it had huge bay windows and single glaze sash windows. Those features cannot be changed as it’s a “preservation area” (and the bays are structural for all the flats above).
I didn’t care because I actually prefer the cold.
So it was a great flat and I was a happy tenant.
Just make it like Canada, where the **landlord** is responsible for paying the costs of keep the property at a steady 20c through winter.
Suddenly paying to fix the insulation and all the other things that need to be done to make a property liveable *won’t* be too expensive for landlords to possibly do.
Source: https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/public-notices-bylaws/bylaw-enforcement/not-enough-heatother-vital-services/
There already is a fitness, health and safety based standard for social housing which is hardly enforced. No property should be let if it fails to comply. That’s great you say, but when there is huge pressure for social housing no council or RSL is going to increase its TA costs and leave marginally fit properties standing empty. There is neither the funds to replace them, build additional units or upgrade what they already have in one go. So they let them, but as was sent in Rochdale they don’t anticipate problems and manage them accordingly.
It is also the case, and it’s unpopular to say, that lifestyle plays a part. You can have a terrace of several houses of which most are OK to live in but a couple may be riddled with condensation damp, which leads to mould. The reasons for this will the houses being overcrowded, the occupiers unable afford to run the heating and not following standard advice about not drying clothes on radiators, not opening bathroom or kitchen windows.
This is a complex and expensive problem. It will not be solved by emphatic words from politicians. It will take money as well as the big stick.