Yep, greedy landlords - dehumanising is the right word.
Get rental properties back into council ownership and have clear qualification criteria and waiting lists.
I’m sure some landlords are greedy just like some are benevolent.
I can only speak from my own experience, when faced with the demise of final salary scheme pensions, Brown’s damaging raid on pension dividends, ever decreasing lifetime allowances (corrected now but too late for me) and financial crashes, becoming a landlord seemed a sensible way of trying to provide a secure pension income.
Younger landlords that can (I know some) are often focussed on giving themselves a chance of a decent retirement income, they borrowed to fund their pension plans and the government kindly removed loan interest tax breaks, rents then had to go up…. What a surprise.
Short term cash grabs by successive governments create all sorts of long term social shifts and their associated damaging effects.
