I know a guy who has 3 houses. He told me he didn't like going up on the rent, but has to do it because he can. In June, he forced a 12-year tenant out when they couldn't afford the new lease amount. It was a good tenant who had taken great care of is place while living there. Last week, he told me that the new tenant who is paying the fat monthly rent had already broken a water pipe in the house. The tenant had shoved a motorcycle into a storage area off of the laundry room and hit a pipe coming off of the hot water heater hard enough to bust it loose. Flooded basement, plumber, possibly a new hot water heater. Anyway, he was within $400 a month of being able to keep the trusted tenant, but would not compromise. Greed gives, and greed takes.

How can we say we're a rich country when significant proportions of the population can't afford basic necessities like food, accommodation and transport?

She's not being difficult she's in a difficult situation with terrible odds. I pray she found a stable home for her and her child.

In my opinion, a housing market crash is imminent due to the high number of individuals who purchased homes above the asking price despite the low interest rates. These buyers find themselves in precarious situations as housing prices decline, leaving them without any equity. If they become unable to afford their homes, foreclosure becomes a likely outcome. Even attempting to sell would not yield any profits. This scenario is expected to impact a significant number of people, particularly in light of the anticipated surge in layoffs and the rapid increase in the cost of living.

So sad, I really feel for this woman. Renting in London is becoming impossible

Gosh my heart breaks for her, she seems like the sweetest person on earth, terrible shame people like her are in this situation

It’s like this in the US as well. It always baffles me that almost all of the apartment complexes being built are of the luxury variety. Like who can afford these places?

She hit the nail on the head herself when she said it was naivety - if you plan to rent privately for the rest of your life good luck staying in the same property. She did well getting 2 decades out of that house

This has been a massive and growing problem for years. It is not an exaggeration to call it a crisis now. And what have our property-owning government done, other than to make it worse?

Same happened to me and my family a year ago here in the US. Our landlord sold his house for cash and we couldn’t find anything we could afford at the time. This is happening everywhere to so many families.

She’s been there two decades and he gives her a court order to leave ? That’s really sad

I believe the housing market is overpriced due to high demand, bidding wars, and challenges in land availability. The trend of wealthy individuals and foreign buyers paying excessively makes it tough for average people to purchase homes, potentially leading to a collapse. Housing will be taking a big hit and prices will drop

Last year, I was working full time, budgeting groceries, unable to afford date nights, and missing time with my kids. Now I learned how to make money online. Now am a SAHM, homeschooling, and making profits every week.

This literally just happened to my family and I. We were blessed to find a private landlord that were willing to work with us regarding the deposit, etc. this was a huge financial burden as most properties are run by management companies and are requesting astronomical amounts for deposits etc…. It’s crazy out here😔

When you are a renter you can NEVER get comfortable. Owners always have you by the throat and you have no rights. True Facts.

She’s lived there for all these years and it still looks clean and tidy. I hope she finds a better place.

Shameful when decent working people like this lady is put on this situation, where she may end up HOMELESS. and for the government spokesman to respond saying they have a good record......the only record this government have is a criminal record. A very comprehensive one that is! Shame on you Sunak!

This is happening in the US as well. My sister was living in an apartment in a private home for 20 plus years. She had to move out because the landlord is selling his home because he can not afford the high real estate taxes. The rent prices are so high, she had to move in with me.

When I was 19, I was renting my first flat (even though I was earning peanuts). At 24, I started buying my first home (still earning peanuts - this was before minimum wage). Now my son is nearly 28, on a decent wage - the idea of him being able to rent (let alone buy) is just laughable. Sunak wants Brits to breed more kids. Don't. If you're renting, you can never guarantee that you can stay in that home in the long term for an affordable sum. Dealing with this kind of crisis on your own is bad enough, to have to deal with all that uncertainty with children in tow is much worse. Same with buying a place. Too many people on the knife-edge of being able to pay their mortgage. It takes one calamity - and that can push them onto the street. On your own, you can work things out more easily. With children in tow - much more difficult. So, through inaction, the government has made it too anxious a business for a young couple to 'comfortably' afford both a roof over their heads 'and' start a family. Happening all over the world.

When will people get it into their thick skulls - a home is only truly yours when you own it outright. If you rent, the house isn't yours, if you have a mortgage - the house isn't yours. You are borrowing it until it becomes yours.

So we're now in a situation where mid-small time landlords are likely looking to sell. So you'd think "great, more houses ppl can buy" but then the people who want to buy a home haven't been able to save a deposit because of increased cost of living, stagnating wages and increasing rent. SO who will buy all these new houses up for sale? The percentage of the population who got even richer over the past decade. the wealth gap has never been wider. You know it's bad when even the middle class is shrinking.

Shelter is a human right.

We have the same problem in Australia. To many people and not enough homes built in the last 40 years. Our “leaders” want to endlessly increase the population so they can get economic benefit from it yet didn’t bother to think where all these extra people were going to live.

This is like my biggest nightmare come true as a renter who has lived in the same apartment my entire life. Rents used to be high but over the last decade they have just become completely unnafordable for single adults. Thankfully I have a lot of savings but that will definitely not get anywhere near owning a home and it would definitely be quickly wiped out if I was now forced to use up almost 90% of my monthly paycheck for the rent alone.

Have been searching for about 9 months now. There is NOTHING. Prices are even going up further. The situation in this country is ridiculous, and dire!

Probably a decent landlord who is probably in his 70's and wants to sell.Provided decent accommodation for 20 years.

The rental lobby seems to want it both ways. They complain about landlords taking homes that could otherwise be used by owner occupiers, whilst at the same time complaining about people having to move out when landlords are forced to sell up and the rental market shrinks in size.

I’m in this situation. I’ve rented 25 years and never missed a payment, have a glowing reference, both hard working, but can’t get a place to rent. I live in the south east of England. I have a cat and a dog. I have a blip on my credit rating due to the pandemic and can’t afford 6 months up front. My landlady has sold my house, she’s taking me to court tomorow. The only option is living in a summerhouse in my mums garden. Wtaf.

Spend 15 years paying off the landlord's mortgage for them and this is the thanks you get

its all over the world, NOT just ENGLAND!

Net, (legal) migration last year was 606,000. We have never built enough houses in a year to keep up with that level of demand. This will only get worse.

I feel for this woman but I am seeing the same problem over and over. Millions have treated private lets as council homes. They've sunk a load of money into someone else's property to make it a home, while paying a massive monthly rent. This wouldn't have happened if governments had built more council homes and ended RTB.

Awful, poor woman. So cruel and undeserved.

I’m being no fault evicted so my landlords can rebuild… I can’t find another suitable home even as a disabled man.

Location is a massive factor almost never mentioned in any discussion about housing. In the small town I live in there's plenty of houses to buy or rent at cheap prices compared to the UK average. This is because the areas wages are low so nobody wants to live here, so there's not much demand for housing. One way of helping the housing situation would be to even up the economy more and give small towns like mine more true levelling up. Then people will want to come here and take up the vacant property. A good example of how location affects housing is as follows. In London you can have so many people chasing so few properties that you can be on £50k per year but struggle to find a flat which you can afford to pay a £2k rent on a month. Yet here I am only earning £28k per year (which is a good wage for my town) but 11 years ago I bought my own 3 bedroom semi detached house, roughly 1800 sq ft, for £70k (worth about £130k now), on a sole owner mortgage. I've a monthly mortgage repayment of only roughly 1/8th of my after tax income. If you want to be in such as London or another big city because of a higher paying job then you need to consider the higher cost of living in relation to that wage. A higher wage doesn't always mean you end up wealthier.

I really hope that lady found a place to live before she was forced out of her home I really hope so and wish her all the best.

Try finding a wheelchair accessible home! It's beyond a joke. No affordable housing to either rent or buy, no special needs options... We're all screwed and with cost of living crisis it's just squeezing us endlessly

Meanwhile the gov is busy providing single rooms for newcomers :(

The idea that you're living in a rental and you NEVER imagined you'd have to move out is absolutely nuts.

This is deeply depressing. Really unfair for this to be happening to people like her. And the sad thing is, it's happening all over the country. This housing crisis has reached a breaking point, and I don't see how much longer it's going to last like this. I really fear for the future of this country.

In a just world, all the Tory govts would be in jail.

This is what happens when governments allow the "free markets" to behave without intervention. The same exact phenomenon is happening in American cities. It's a combination of NIMBY's and basically 100% of all new properties that manage to be built being 'luxury'. If you're a person who can spend $50k on rent, you have no shortage of options on where to live. If you can only spend $35k you need to become a real estate agent.

This unfortunate woman spent 20 years paying off her landlord's mortgage & has nothing to show for it. Her landlord will be in receipt of 20 years house price increase & will likely make hundreds of thousands of pounds in profit from the sale

What a sad state of affairs that even two-income housholds are struggling to afford accomodation. When I was a kid it was feasible for even single people on an average income to even BUY a home! Now people in the same scenario are lucky if they can even afford to RENT a place. I would need to be working full-time and earning 3x what my parents did to afford the very same house we lived in 30 years ago. This country is broken.

I'm afraid I'm voting for whichever party has a credible plan for housing and for public services. The Renter's Reform Bill is a sticking plaster, rights bestowed that renters always should have had. The Tories have caused this country to deteriorate so badly, it's barely recognisable from 15yrs ago.

I moved to France 7 years ago having found myself priced out of the market. Locally there are 600 empty social housing units. Private rents start at around 250€ a month for a 2 bed flat.

Whenever you rent you have to be prepared for anything because landlord could make changes at any time by increasing the rent, selling up etc. That’s the mentality you have to have, it’s not your home, you’re just living there.

Renting is Brighton is beyond unaffordable not even accepting council referrals. This is a serious crisis for ALL renters been worsening severely since 2016 there have removed all fair rent inspectors and all regulation on rent, there is NO limit on landlord greed. We need fair rent now. People need to march and protest together on this issue. Please write to your MP. Horrific situation to find yourself in.

Honestly, my tip would be, to live like your homeless literally eat beans and toast and save every penny you can after a couple of years you should have your deposit. This is what I did I now have a mortgage.

This is heartbreaking, I hope she finds a place soon. I think some of us need to consider moving abroad. Sometimes it seems like there arent enough homes for everyone.

And this is why so many people are desperate to BUY their own home , so no landlord sells the roof over your head . But both landlord and Tennant are in a sad situation.

Praying 🙏🏾 for her and her family May she find a home

Decades old third world problems catching up with so called first world countries.

I’ve said this again and again, in the U.S., the housing crisis has been caused by pure greed and “investors” treating housing as a product without any regard to what the greater implications are to our society. Government is complicit by refusing to set rent controls or limits on yearly rent increases (which should be tied to some objective measure like consumer price index). I foresee many rich nations becoming and looking like developing nations with “favela”-type shanty towns built by all the people who are priced out of their homes and extreme inequality with only the super rich living in expensive properties with fencing and security, similar to what you see in Brazil, Mexico, South Africa and the like. Just tragic!

so sorry sweetheart but you have to leave London. There's 90% of the population that understand (me included) that unless we earn +35k we cant stay in London

Happening in Canada 🇨🇦 too, I am literally 27 and can’t move out on my own.

Here are some of the key reasons for the shortage of housing in much of the UK: (1) uncontrolled legal and illegal migration (2) huge increase in population (unsustainable) (3) misallocation and mismanagement of social/council housing whereby people end up living in properties they should not be eligible for and fraud (4) anyone in the whole world being eligible to buy property in the UK. As the UK is seen as a very safe place to invest in, with relatively low property taxes or restrictions, significant numbers of foreign buyers started moving in quite some time ago and this is ever increasing. Many of the properties are just investments and are not or almost never lived in and are not rented out. There is no point in politicians harping on endlessly saying that more housing must be built, if it is not protected for ownership or rent by UK citizens. Other countries such as Singapore, India and Switzerland do not permit foreign buyers of homes. (5) Government regards landlords as criminals and makes it harder for them to earn a decent profit. Almost no protection from abusive tenants. The Tenant Deposit Scheme is not fit for purpose and protects the tenant, even if they have caused significant damage. Unless the government gets to grips with the five points listed above, there will never be any improvement and the rate of homelessness will just increase.

This world is making me so angry. No one should have to go through this. Praying they find a good home

"Did you ever think that you'd have to move out?" "No". Bless her. I hope she'll be able to find a better place ❤

What is she moaning about? Whats the full story, 2 kids aged 20+ and at least 2 salaries - let me guess they want to stay in hackney or brixton at a cheap rent and dont want to downsize

I met a lady on a tour in SE Asia she lives rent free in her father's house in London. She wants to move to Northern Ireland where her mother lives. Even wants the father to sell his house. I told her she is crazy. It's difficult for people to find affordable housing in London. Why would she want to move to Northern Ireland? I told her when I was growing up Northern Ireland was a very violent place with lots of bombing, and killings. It's the total opposite of London with its culture, museums, nightlife and everything most people enjoy being close to.

To be renting for 20yrs is ludicrous, surely one can amass a deposit in say, 5 years. She's just made it that more difficult for herself to ever purchase her own place.

The straw that broke the camels back was uncontrolled immigration which still continues

Meanwhile, some multi generational families share a home.

The Government has attacked the private landlord over recent years - its no wonder they want to sell up. The problem is the private landlord was filling the gap of the Governments lack of investment in social housing! What could possibly go wrong!

How many of these houses are going to get bought by councils desperate to house illegal immigrants? Just a thought

It's too bad that her and her son can't buy this place because I can see how much she likes it. I hope things work out for them

I am British, but have lived in America for almost 40 years. This video makes me feel guilty...having my own 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom house, and living here all by myself.. Until l watched this video, l had no idea that the housing situation in Britain was so grim. ☹️ I have recently retired and am tentatively planning to move back to Northumberland after l sell my home here in Massachusetts. This video has given me a lot to think about before l make that move..🤔 Incidentally, l grew up in a 3 bedroom council house, and when Thatcher made it possible to buy your council house, my Father, a coal miner said no.. absolutely not. ..bad idea. He actually forecast the future...said there would be a much greater need for subsided housing in the future.. Moreso when the Government drastically cut down on building new council houses in our area.☹️

The truth is. She is a renter. She does not own the property. The landlord wants to sell HIS/HER property which they have the right to do! May be unfortunate for her. But it is what it is.

Landlords leaving the industry in droves. More tax and regs and now 3X interest rates has made the industry unviable for most.

There is no incentive for landlords to maintain the house because of the recent rise of OPR, there is absolutely no way to pay off the mortgage except to either raise the rent or sell it.

It’s not just because not enough social housing is being built, it’s also because social housing has been sold off. On top of that private landlords have also lost businesses/jobs due to lock downs so need to sell rented houses to keep their heads above water.

Terrible situation. Greed the only cause of this . Greed forcing property prices up so high, we now have homeless on the streets. My son's rent went from £600 to £1100 a month in the Medway area over two years. He has secured a mortgage for less than that now. He found a low priced property that needed many thousands spent on it. But it was the only way.

It is sad for her but again when you rent you can’t expect forever access to a property that you don’t own so I can see it on both sides.

The very people who claim they are helping poor people are the same ones that make life the hardest.

In Cambridge they’re building a lot of “affordable housing “ which no one can afford to live in. Even if you live in a social housing rent still have to be paid. Not everyone has Housing Benefits

The anguish and suffering of this tenant breaks my heart, I pray she finds something soon.!

never in a million years try to find a place in london i moved out of london . the only way for to live in london they have to pay witch will never happen

In America property taxes are so ridiculously high that it keeps driving rents up. Therefore making unaffordable for most.

Living in someone else house paying rent. Question: did you ever think you will have to move out?, Answer: No, and starts crying. People if you rent the house is not yours. You need to be prepared to move at any time. Keep savings, try to get your own place, always have a plan B.

Poor lady, hope she finds something. London’s had its day,. Everything happens for a reason, job loss/house loss. On to better things

All by design yet if you arrive by condom 4-5* hotels anyone getting it yet?

Landlords are increasing rents because of new regulations costs, mortgages and the fact that everything else is expensive. Having reliable tenants, who work mutually with the landlord is significantly better than having higher rents.

The UK is a failed state sorry.

I'm sorry, but some of those questions the reporter was asking that woman were pathetic. 'How does it make you feel' and ' what are your fears'? This problem shows no signs of easing, which will be exasperated with other factors coming into play

Unfortunately if you rent you are only borrowing the property...it doesn't belong to you. It's sad but this is the reality of the world.

I think if 50,000 illegal migrants can find homes, there must be lots of places. Another 50,000 will come next year, so there must be places for them. The goverment is not worried.

There's about to be an enormous housing price crash. It's awful that the people who would most benefit from this won't have had the ability to save for a deposit because of rental costs.

One pay day away from disaster...the story of my life😡it's a desperate state of affairs! God help us renters!

It’s incredible that this government has destroyed GREAT Britain. Poor women. I hope someone helps her. Why can’t she be helped but the people on boats get treated as VIP’s

Land Lordism rent inflation and the inability to buy your own home in the place you were born is the single biggest problem in London. 20 years ago my rent was 1/4 of my wage. Now it's half.

It is not only about rent most of the home states are in very poor and bad conditions 😢

Thank you for covering this tragedy.

If you come to Leeds, you will be living in a large house for half the london cost

I think it's too late for people like this lady but young people in the UK need to get out while they still can. Housing is being weaponised against us to transfer wealth upwards from the poorest in society.

Immigration. The landlord's rather the immigrants/ students pay 500 quid a month + for a room. With 3 to 6 months rent in advance. How can a single parents compete with that?

Poor people feel so sorry for them

It is sooooooo IMPORTANT to own your OWN home!!!

There was a time, not that long ago, that people married in order to live cheaper together. Even if two incomes were needed. Today more and more in the West people marry for a short time and separate/divorce when things aren't great. Before people learned to live together even when there were problems. The lower marriage rate and high divorce rate creates two housing issues. #1 less income = less choices, higher risk. #2 separate households = need for more housing units which increases demand which pushes up rents.

Lots of renters where I live in an adjacent block all rentals. Brand new Cars on parking spaces , lots of parties, endless deliveroo drivers, renting in an expensive area. It's called prioritising and being responsible