Another example of Scum Landlords having too much power
Another week, another example of the unbelievable power imbalance between increasingly desperate renters and scumbag Landlords…
Privacy Commissioner crackdown on information compiled and shared by landlords
The Privacy Commissioner is cracking down on privacy breaches by landlords after tenants were ordered to produce bank statements to secure homes or placed on secret “blacklists”.
Privacy Commissioner John Edwards announced he will focus on the collection, retention and disclosure of information by landlords and property management agencies after his office received a raft of complaints.
…as this Government give property speculators and Landlords more economic power while tinkering at the edges of their obligations, scum Landlords now want more power than the cops by demanding bank records and setting up black lists!
We need an urgent Rent freeze, we need permanent residencies and we need more rights to make those houses homes.
The commodification of houses in an under regulated market is the only way to make wealth in NZ meaning the housing market is rigged against the renter.
The little Labour are doing is a feast of famines on this housing issue.
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Also all the 90 day notices that have happened within the last couple of weeks.
Proving were not all in this together.
If a tenant trashes a house more than once or habitually does not pay rent then it should be public, likewise serial landlords who are found guilty multiple times at Tenancy Tribunals. At the end of the day, those that take housing out of circulation via deliberate acts should not be allowed to keep going.
There are scum landlords and scum tenants and fortunately both are a small minority . The state owning and controlling more homes would mean rents would go down and the condition of homes would improve as they need to match the state houses. The biggest problem with state homes is that they finish up being the only place bad tenants can live and that makes life difficult for those good people in the area
Please remind me, wasn’t one of the election promises the Ardern version of the neo-Labour party made the first time they got in, to give tenants security of tenure? I may be wrong, but I don’t think so. Even as a very good tenant there is always the fear of having to move on a whim of a rentier.