Too young to rent.. Apparently

jimpix12

CloudCuckooLand wrote: »

Maybe he lives next door, and assumes all 24-yr olds will be noisy, have loads of mates/parties, etc...

A Letting Agent saying, off the cuff, "too young" is not discrimination on the part of the landlord. The landlord may have said "I'd prefer this other applicant", then the LA tried to sweeten the rejection with a casual comment...

Perhaps the OP's old thread makes the LL worried about his relationship with neighbours, if he wishes to sell in the future.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/25268205#Comment_25268205 "RS or VXR8"...

Did the OP turn up in either of those, or something worse, and the LL was watching from another house, and thought "noisy thing...don't want to live next to one of those"..?!

Haha, possibly (M3 here). Oh well.. Move on, eh?

RAS

I think this LL is guilty of age discrimination, but whether you could prove it is another matter.

CloudCuckooLand

spunko2010 wrote: »

M3

'Nuff said...it's your own fault.

Yorkie1

spunko2010 wrote: »

I suppose I am looking for advice should this happen again in any future search. It's always good to know the law, even if it doesn't apply directly to oneself.

People have mentioned age discrimination. Having just looked it up on the equality human rights commission website, it transpires that age discrimination is only relevant to vocational, training or employment issues. It does not extend to the provision of goods or services.

Therefore I think that he has not in fact broken the law by discriminating against you on the grounds of age.

jimpix12

Yorkie1 wrote: »

People have mentioned age discrimination. Having just looked it up on the equality human rights commission website, it transpires that age discrimination is only relevant to vocational, training or employment issues. It does not extend to the provision of goods or services.

Therefore I think that he has not in fact broken the law by discriminating against you on the grounds of age.

Okay.. I'm not looking to take this any further but I did check the Equality Act 2010 which I believe is now in practice:

The Act covers all areas of discrimination, including race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment and age. But it also - for the first time - broadens the scope of age discrimination law beyond the workplace to the provision of goods and services.

Proving/disproving this is of course very difficult....

Yorkie1

spunko2010 wrote: »

Okay.. I'm not looking to take this any further but I did check the Equality Act 2010 which I believe is now in practice

Afraid you didn't check it carefully enough. The majority of the provisions were implemented from 1 October 2010, see Statutory Instrument Commencement Order #4.

But paragraph 2(3)(a) of that Order specifically excludes the protected characteristic of age from the implementation of the goods and services provisions.

It is not yet in force as respects age.

mynameisdave

Yorkie1 wrote: »

Afraid you didn't check it carefully enough. The majority of the provisions were implemented from 1 October 2010, see Statutory Instrument Commencement Order #4.

But paragraph 2(3)(a) of that Order specifically excludes the protected characteristic of age from the implementation of the goods and services provisions.

It is not yet in force as respects age.

I have not read the act but would that not just be the clause to, for instance, prevent alcohol and tobacco being sold to udner 18's or is that already covered elsewhere?

Soniclord

Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »

I'm afraid you appear to have fallen foul of the SRR (Shared Room Rate) age restriction. Until you are 25, if you have to claim LHA, all you will get is the SRR, which is very low and unlikely to cover the rent on self contained accommodation. This age limit is soon to be moved to 35.

So you have to be over 25 to get more than the shared room rate at the moment but your saying that the age limit is going to be raised to 35 sometime soon?? If so that's preposterous!

Bearing in mind I'm 30 and my other half is only 21 (22 in April) and we have 2 kids, both work part time and are renting a 3 bedroom house. We also get LHA but not at the shared room rate obviously what with having 2 kids etc.

But this change that you say is coming will that actually affect us in any way shape or form? Because when it changes I'd be under 35, therefore presumably would only be entitled to the shared room rate. I'm going to assume that's only if I was single though??

I know very little about LHA etc which is why I'm asking.

Thanks.

Morglin

This might help:

.........The shared room rate currently applies to single people under 25 on housing benefit in the private rented sector. Local housing allowance claimants who are single, under 25 and without dependants are currently eligible only for sufficient LHA to cover the rent of a single room in a shared house, rather than self-contained accommodation. Under measures announced in the comprehensive spending review, the threshold for the shared room rate will be increased to 35 years of age from April 2012. All single, childless adults under 35 will see their LHA cut from the current one-bedroom rate to the SRR. The Government estimate that 88,000 people will be affected by this change..............


http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debate/?id=2011-02-17a.1215.2

Lin

quantic

When I rented my first property the landlord wouldn't even show us around to begin with as he thought we where too young and would not keep up with the payments. In the end I showed the estate agent that I had enough savings to pay the year off in one go if I had to, and they let it slip. Pretty shocking still though.