Is there any help for tenants in these to ugh times?

Thrugelmir

n1guy said:

And there it is. A 3 month mortgage holiday. My landlord will be pleased. Suck it up for us renters it seems. 

It’s typical tories really. The poor and less well off are falling through the cracks as usual

Do you fully understand the measure? Or simply playing politics. 

diggingdude

There has always been support for renters. It's called housing benefit/universal credit. It's about time something for homeowners is put in place 

afis1904

diggingdude said:

There has always been support for renters. It's called housing benefit/universal credit. It's about time something for homeowners is put in place 

There's absolutely no reason to protect an investment like a house in normal times and the support that is there for housing doesn't really go far enough.

n1guy

Thrugelmir said:

n1guy said:

And there it is. A 3 month mortgage holiday. My landlord will be pleased. Suck it up for us renters it seems. 

It’s typical tories really. The poor and less well off are falling through the cracks as usual

Do you fully understand the measure? Or simply playing politics. 

Enlighten me. I understand there is no help for renters but mortgage payers are given a 3 month holiday. Maybe I missed a bit of vital information 

n1guy

diggingdude said:

There has always been support for renters. It's called housing benefit/universal credit. It's about time something for homeowners is put in place 

You do know housing benefit doesn’t cover all rent? If got full housing benefit it would cover just over half my rent. 

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n1guy said

You do know housing benefit doesn’t cover all rent? If got full housing benefit it would cover just over half my rent. 

 Then live within your means and move somewhere cheaper 

diggingdude

n1guy said:

diggingdude said:

There has always been support for renters. It's called housing benefit/universal credit. It's about time something for homeowners is put in place 

You do know housing benefit doesn’t cover all rent? If got full housing benefit it would cover just over half my rent. 

Then you need to move somewhere cheaper if on housing benefit. If I go unemployed normally no one will financially assist me with my housing 

diggingdude

afis1904 said:

diggingdude said:

There has always been support for renters. It's called housing benefit/universal credit. It's about time something for homeowners is put in place 

There's absolutely no reason to protect an investment like a house in normal times and the support that is there for housing doesn't really go far enough.

Perhaps those who lose houses they have owned for say 10 years should get priority to social housing as they haven't been a burden to the state all that time? (No I don't believe hb is a burden but tenants have far more protection financially than home owners, I say that having rented half my life)

n1guy

_shel said:

n1guy said

You do know housing benefit doesn’t cover all rent? If got full housing benefit it would cover just over half my rent. 

 Then live within your means and move somewhere cheaper 

It doesn't matter, you'll never find anywhere where private rent is fully covered.

onwards&upwards

EmmyLou30 said:

What about pensioner landlords who may not have a mortgage on their rental property? No mortgage relief for them, but they may be forced to allow rent relief? Not sure that's fair either as that's their income. Plus the rental property still needs insuring/maintenance and other ongoing costs that rent covers. While in an ideal world we all have savings for these occasions many don't and all these measures will do is push the problem from one innocent party to another surely. 

Landlords who use rent as their income will be no worse/better off than people who lose their income from work, they can claim benefits, but they will still have a roof over their heads and that’s most important.