Friday, 11 December 2015

If they were just preying on the working class, that would be fine and dandy...

Via MBK, The Times on stomach churning top form:

Runaway house prices are forcing hundreds of thousands of middle-class families into the hands of rogue landlords, a study has found.

More than 200,000 households earning more than £30,000 a year are renting homes with a “category 1” hazard, which can include rat infestations, unsafe electrics, cold and damp, according to a report by the Citizens Advice charity and the New Policy Institute think tank.

Almost 130,000 of these households earn more than £40,000, suggesting that the blight of rogue landlords is not exclusive to those at the bottom of the social ladder…

2 comments:

mombers said...

Here's a link to the report from Citizens Advice https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/about-us/how-citizens-advice-works/media/press-releases/rogue-landlords-forcing-tenants-into-nightmare/

Bayard said...

Reminds me of a line in a report in a Portuguese newspaper of a train disaster, seen many years ago by a friend "Fortunately, only third-class passengers were killed" (and no, that was not a mistranslation of the Portuguese).