{"id":143799,"date":"2024-04-19T18:04:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T11:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/housing-is-many-uk-voters-priority-but-rental-system-remains-unfixed\/"},"modified":"2024-04-19T18:18:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T11:18:21","slug":"housing-is-many-uk-voters-priority-but-rental-system-remains-unfixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/housing-is-many-uk-voters-priority-but-rental-system-remains-unfixed\/","title":{"rendered":"Housing is many UK voters\u2019 priority but rental system remains unfixed"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nRents are soaring, housebuilding is lagging and long-promised eviction reform has still not been enactedArtist cuts rent by commuting from ArgentinaAndy Leek\u2019s escape to Argentina from Britain\u2019s soaring rents is no doubt extreme. But the fact that this relatively successful artist feels he is better off paying transatlantic air fares than stumping up for ever-rising landlord demands is indicative of a crisis that only ever seems to get worse.Polls show 23% of voters now rank housing as the most important issue facing the country, up from 14% at the December 2019 general election. More people now rate it as the priority than crime or the environment, according to YouGov. Yet little is done. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Rents are soaring, housebuilding is lagging and long-promised eviction reform has still not been enactedArtist...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-Bpl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131598,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/what-is-happening-to-the-uk-homebuying-and-rental-markets\/","url_meta":{"origin":143799,"position":0},"title":"What is happening to the UK homebuying and rental markets?","date":"November 14, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"\r House prices for buyers have started to fall, while housing rents have reached record highsFor Joe, a youth worker in his 20s, soaring rents have made living and working in London precarious.\u201cOur rent costs 50% of our combined wage before bills,\u201d says Joe, who shares with his partner, a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131070,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/money-is-draining-through-my-fingers-uk-tenants-on-soaring-rents\/","url_meta":{"origin":143799,"position":1},"title":"\u2018Money is draining through my fingers\u2019: UK tenants on soaring rents","date":"October 19, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Renters are spending more than 30% of income on housing against backdrop of possible eviction due to rising demandElle Young, 29, who works in arts funding, lives in an illegal sublet in London to make her rent more affordable. 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