Landlord who crammed 40 people into house is banned

Ok let's call this out and be honest, the vast majority of these rogue landlords are not middle aged white men. There I said it, we all know it and I dare say the howls of protest will ensue but read these reports it's self evident there is an issue in ethnic communities when it comes to poor housing, and that then gets used as a stick to beat the sector with. Maybe a Landlord register will tackle this, or maybe requiring mandatory use of an ARLA Letting Agent but something does need to be done to kick these crooks out of the sector at the same time acknowledge that being a small landlord does not equate to being Rigsby.

• John Hynd
• 17 August 2023 06:57 AM

I fully agree with your assessment, but unfortunately, the powers that be and the leftie brigade will see you to be racist. Good on you for calling it how it is. More people should feel safe enough to do the same.

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• Simon Logan
• 17 August 2023 07:36 AM

No howls here, we know it’s true on the whole.

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The Surname says it all.

It only takes one case like this and it will appear to justify licensing for the 99% of landlords who do a perfectly good job.

Every story I read about rouge landlords have the same demographic of the population

• John Adams
• 17 August 2023 07:14 AM

The problem is that people have been shamed from stating real issues less they are declared racist. This is a very dangerous outcome because it allows criminality to flourish unchallenged as we have seen in the child abuse cases in Rotherham, the money laundering in Oxford Street "American sweet shops" and the numerous streets filled with "Turkish Barbers" and this fear of calling these issues out destroys any prospects of community cohesion as well as preventing the exposure of human trafficking and slavery.
It's time society realised quantifying criminality is not racist, it's only racist when you fail to act to solve it. You look at who is most likely to be murdered and it's not a white kid from Windsor, but because of the agenda of denial, black boys are dying. Time to be honest.

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No-one wants to see this but why does it take Councils so long to do anything about it? After discovering the man in the shack did they not visit regularly?

I imagine these 'tenants' had little idea of housing law, but in general, the people best placed to finger the rogue LLs are the tenants but they don't because they presumably need the housing desperately or are paying low rent. Until we find a way to get tenants reporting this sort of abuse we will never rid ourselves of it.

• John Adams
• 17 August 2023 07:26 AM

I can tell you exactly why, they are usually working for that landlord, quite possibly illegally or owe money to the landlord because they've been trafficked. They certainly have no knowledge of Housing Law and once lured with the promise of cheap accommodation they are told make trouble and you won't do it again, I know people....
So what do you do? You shut your mouth and pay up.

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GB news reports that illegal immigrants taken in by the home office at an RAF base are being told they can leave if they have relatives to go to ! Almost certainly that will mean overcrowding at rental property!

• Simon Logan
• 17 August 2023 07:40 AM

Then the council will prosecute the landlord 🆘🆘🤔🤔

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While this landlord sounds absolutely dreadful, it is worth considering why these tenants put up with living in appalling conditions.

They were paying between £60 and £65 a week each and, no doubt, partly because of the RENTERS REFORM LEGISLATION couldn't find anywhere else to live at a low enough rent.

If there were a huge supply of private rented accommodation everyone would have better accommodation at a lower price, particularly migrants (as in this case) who may be poor and subject to discrimination.

The living conditions of all tenants will deteriorate unless the Government rethinks its attitude towards landlords and the private rental sector. Can't they have a policy where they encourage people to let, not policies which cause a housing crisis!

Worth remembering, too, that Rachmanism came about in the 1940s partly due to rent controls at the time.

Given what is happening right now with the PRS do any of us really think this will change 😥, if it does it is likely to get worse. 🫤

Well I suppose they weren’t his Tenants at all, probably a Bossman Occupant collecting the Rent if not too presumptuous of me. I can’t see the owners collecting from each individual not least the guy in the make shift in the back garden.
There was no Tenancy Agreement so who’s to say who the Tenants were ?.
Looks more like friends accommodating their mates or Country folk, no doubt taking a cut as well if you are genuinely renting you are not going to allow others crowd your space.
When I see loads of young people washing cars and great voids especially on wet days and dozens waiting outside Builders Suppliers in the morning’s hoping for a Shift how can they be paying proper rent. I don’t think Share codes were in place at that time but wouldn’t have them without a Tenancy Agreement, then again I remember various Organisations saying it wasn’t illegal not to have a Tenancy Agreement except HMO’s…