Comments by "JamesT" (@Parawingdelta2) on "Angela Rayner's renter bill" video.

I owned a carpet cleaning business for many years and did a lot of work for landlords or the estate agents managing their properties. I know exactly what you mean. On the other hand, my daughter has rented a house for over fifteen years. She keeps the place spotless. Although the rent keeps rising, apart from fixing things like failed electrical appliances, there has been no repainting, carpet replacement, or other improvements or maintenance that one would expect over that period.
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At the risk of sounding like a socialist, housing is an essential element of our society just as much as health care and education and, in my opinion, should be undertaken by the government. Of course, in past decades, public housing has been constructed to accommodate those who need it but then ultimately sold off to the highest bidder. The other side of the coin is the manner in which many tenants treat their accommodation. I owned a carpet cleaning business for twelve years. I mean, how do you break a toilet?
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@MissFlight-q8f I've lived in Australia for over fifty years, so I can only assume circumstances are similar in the UK where loans for house purchases are not approved without a substantial deposit often out of reach of many while they're paying rent. Sort of a 'Catch-22' where people are paying more in monthly rent than a mortgage, but the bank tells them they can't afford to service the loan. I had an aunty who lived in Norwich and was relocated from an old terraced housing estate in 1959 into a new council semi-detached house where she lived for fifty-seven years until she died. I have five grown-up children, none of whom own their own house.
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