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hiraethified
Free market economics, innit.
Rapidly gentrifying area = huge demand for housing from the better off.
Bastard greedy landlord free to exploit the market thanks to the shameful lack of social housing = mahoosive rent rises.
Champagne & Fromage opening in Brixton soon
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Rapidly gentrifying area = huge demand for housing from the better off.
Bastard greedy landlord free to exploit the market thanks to the shameful lack of social housing = mahoosive rent rises.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Because they want to go skiing at Christmas, put their kids through Dulwich college and buy that cottage in Cornwall.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
Are people appealing these rent increases to the rent assessment committee? https://www.gov.uk/housing-tribunals/rent-assessment-committee-disputes-about-rent
oryx
Sitting on the bok of the day
I used to be very aware of the rent assessment committee when I was a (private) fair rent tenant, but the word was always that they could put it up as well as down if you appealed.
One year I got hit by 46% but admittedly it was starting from a low base, so I didn't appeal.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
Yes, I think they can put it up as well as down. But unless (as In your example) the rents are starting from a very low base I imagine that it might be worth challenging some of these massive increases, particularly if lots of people all do it at once.
oryx
Sitting on the bok of the day
If they're not from a low base then yes, they should definitely be challenging them - funny that the rent assessment committee isn't well-publicised, isn't it!
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
Yep I only know of it because there's an out of date bit of paper that comes with my service charges every six months.If they're not from a low base then yes, they should definitely be challenging them - funny that the rent assessment committee isn't well-publicised, isn't it!
Gramsci
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That depends. Housing Associations are being pressurized to rent property under the new "affordable" regimes of up to 80% of market rent if property is relet. Also if tenant leaves the new tenant may be on time limited tenancy.
HAs are taking quite different approach to the changes in social housing. Some are opting to no further expansion in order to keep there existing housing and tenants on social rents and more long term tenancies.
The government "affordable homes programme" is only for those HAs which will set rents under the new "affordable" regime. The GLA may step in to get more housing at near social rents. But situation is bleak for future of social housing.
LSE report shows the whilst London has weathered the economic crisis better than the rest of the country the least well off have suffered the worst.
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happyshopper
Well-Known Member
It's the word "champagne". It's only a type of sparkling wine, but with some people it touches a nerve.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
It's not 'only' a type of sparkling wine, it's also a signifier of a whole series of oppressive and unequal social relations, slap bang in the middle of some of those on the worst end of those inequalities.
It is just symbolic, i guess. yes it is pretty arbitrary to single out this one place.... but, is that such a bad thing?
Rushy
basically a scrotum
It's no better or worse than singling out any one particular recipient of benefits to make a point about welfare.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Good point
Although I think the Honest burger and chips is £7.95 (7.20 in Brixton pounds).
And you could pay £5 for a high street burger much lower in quality and far less filling.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Wow.
If you thought that the welfare system was inherently bad i suppose you might do that, you would have to be some kind of vile sociopath to think that though.
Or nothing like that at all.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Wow.
I must come in this forum more often.
I must come in this forum more often.
Good point. I'd say that massive payday loan shop near the academy charging 3,000% APR to desperate people would make a slightly more appropriate target than a place selling bubbly and cheese.
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hiraethified
Like you'd get off your arse to go to either.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
It is possible to protest about both.
Champagne and fromage is neatly symbolic. It may not be, per se, particularly worse than any of the other "mid-range luxury" establishments colonising the village, but there is a symbolism to champagne as the ultimate libation of the rich, which makes the inequality and contrast impossible to ignore for lots of people. Then the word "fromage" seems a bit pretentious, because it's French and we've a perfectly good English word for it (and easily as good british cheeses, for that matter)... The pretentiousness invites attention and then contempt, and galvanises people to protest.
I like cheese and fizzy wine, but I totally get why these guys are fair target.
Champagne and fromage is neatly symbolic. It may not be, per se, particularly worse than any of the other "mid-range luxury" establishments colonising the village, but there is a symbolism to champagne as the ultimate libation of the rich, which makes the inequality and contrast impossible to ignore for lots of people. Then the word "fromage" seems a bit pretentious, because it's French and we've a perfectly good English word for it (and easily as good british cheeses, for that matter)... The pretentiousness invites attention and then contempt, and galvanises people to protest.
I like cheese and fizzy wine, but I totally get why these guys are fair target.
editor
hiraethified
Spot on.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
There's a social war going on and this is how you two respond? What makes people like you?
Er, fuck off. If there was a protest mounted against a payday loan company in brixton, and I was in Brixton, I would definitely attend.
A protest mounted by some shit band against some shit champers joint in a shit market, er, no.
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hiraethified
Instead of belittling an actual protest by damning them with their supposed inaction over an issue you claim to be passionate about, why don't you get off your arse and organise your own protest?
