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leanderman said:
All good points. Especially about the increase in residential units.

But the fact Lambeth stepped in suggests the policy was wrong - or at least had gone too far.
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They should have curtailed it a lot earlier than they did, but you know Lambeth: Lackadaisical to the fucking last! :facepalm:
 
Rushy said:
10am this morning was hilarious. Must have been 200 gurners off their nuts staggering about between The Electric and McDonalds, several standing with their eyes closed, faces turned up towards the sunshine. A big night. :D
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el-ahrairah said:
that's some fine sophistry going on there.

LAs and HAs need to provide, by law, far greater levels of service than any landlord in the country, and are restricted by law to how much they can put their prices up.

when private landlords are expected to perform just 10% of the duties of a housing association towards their clients we'd see a fucking change.

but official government policy for the last 30 years has been to effectively make HAs act as social services and make them spend so much money that they are effectively owned by the banks.

i know you landlords think you're doing a good deed by being kind enough to let people live in your precious investment in return for as much money as you can extract, but you're really not. sorry.
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Whatever the reasons for the increases, and whatever services you personally feel should be delivered by your landlord, the Londonwide figures indicate that private rents have increased at well below inflationary levels over the past 8yrs.
 
i'm deeply cynical of those figures. i'm trying to find someone who has been renting in london the whole time who hasn't seen rent rises double, triple or more. i work in housing and part of our job is to try and find private rent for vulnerable adults and in the two years i've been there the value in the "rent expected" field is nearly 25% higher for low end properties.

how much have you raised your rents by in that period?
 
Rushy said:
Obviously this analysis is from a source working in the interest of landlords - but the figures are government figures:

Figures from the Office for National Statistics show that in the eight years between December 2005 and December 2013, rents across London as a whole increased by no more than 11.4 per cent. Inflation as measured by RPI over this period was 30.5 per cent and by CPI was 26.2 per cent.

In comparison, figures published by the Department for Communities and Local Government show that in the eight year period between 2005/06 and 2012/13, local authority housing average weekly rents in London increased by 36.2 per cent and 48.2 per cent for housing associations.​
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That RLA release is piss-poor. "Figures from the ONS" - but no reference or link to them. "In comparison" - again unreferenced figures published by another department (the one pursuing Pickles' agenda), almost certainly different methodologies so not comparable.
Private rents actually paid aren't registered or published. And there is almost certainly a marked difference between average rent and new-tenancy rent. Although AST tenants have little security and landlords *can* push rents up at each renewal, a quiet life, a reliable tenant, no void and no letting-agent fees are worth a lot. But with agented new tenancies there's another layer of parasites to feed.
 
fortyplus said:
That RLA release is piss-poor. "Figures from the ONS" - but no reference or link to them. "In comparison" - again unreferenced figures published by another department (the one pursuing Pickles' agenda), almost certainly different methodologies so not comparable.
Private rents actually paid aren't registered or published. And there is almost certainly a marked difference between average rent and new-tenancy rent. Although AST tenants have little security and landlords *can* push rents up at each renewal, a quiet life, a reliable tenant, no void and no letting-agent fees are worth a lot. But with agented new tenancies there's another layer of parasites to feed.
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I'd like to see how the figures were arrived at.

They are very much at odds with my experience - but that does not necessarily make them (completely) wrong.
 
Quick question: where can I buy grout from in Brixton today? I'm standing next to Brixton DIY which is closed.

It's a bit of an emergency.

Thanks.
 
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Dexter Deadwood said:
It's over for the working class in Brixton. Right To Buy was the slow ticking bomb. I live in "socially rented" council housing, i have a secure tenancy; i'm one of the lucky ones and it does not feel safe to me. Attacks on the welfare system are coordinated, triangulated to force the poor, the malcontents and the dissidents out. It's over for the working class nationally.

It's not the millionaires or those in social housing that are the problem. It's the middle class.
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If the middle class are the problem, what's the solution?
 
CH1 - is that one of the terraces on Coldharbour Lane? Saw some chinese builders hard at work clearing bags and bags of rubble from the basement of a place there, seem to be making speedy progress. How much did that place go for?
 
teuchter said:
If the middle class are the problem, what's the solution?
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It's a good question, it would have been a better question had it not been prefaced by the qualification.

I don't have a solution for my own difficulties let alone have the ability to extrapolate that to the entire working class.
Personally, i don't think there is any solution but i'll have a long hard think about it when i have some free time and try to post a practicable blueprint.
I suspect you won't like much if any of it.
 
Dexter Deadwood said:
It's a good question, it would have been a better question had it not been prefaced by the qualification.

I don't have a solution for my own difficulties let alone have the ability to extrapolate that to the entire working class.
Personally, i don't think there is any solution but i'll have a long hard think about it when i have some free time and try to post a practicable blueprint.
I suspect you won't like much if any of it.
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If it's a genocide-based solution then I probably wouldn't be so keen. But as a member of the despised problem class (along with the majority of the regular posters on this thread), I wonder what you'd like us to do differently. Should I never have moved to Brixton? Should I have stayed away from London altogether?
 
teuchter said:
If it's a genocide-based solution then I probably wouldn't be so keen. But as a member of the despised problem class (along with the majority of the regular posters on this thread), I wonder what you'd like us to do differently. Should I never have moved to Brixton? Should I have stayed away from London altogether?
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I tried to give you a reasonable interim reply and you respond with suggestions of genocide.
 
Nedrop said:
CH1 - is that one of the terraces on Coldharbour Lane? Saw some chinese builders hard at work clearing bags and bags of rubble from the basement of a place there, seem to be making speedy progress. How much did that place go for?
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I believe the developer paid £575,000 in May 2013.
I may post photos later (of the ongoing improvements at the back)
 
teuchter said:
If it's a genocide-based solution then I probably wouldn't be so keen. But as a member of the despised problem class (along with the majority of the regular posters on this thread), I wonder what you'd like us to do differently. Should I never have moved to Brixton? Should I have stayed away from London altogether?
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Exactly how do you profess to know the class of the "majority of the regular posters on this thread"?
 
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