[onmydesk]

Forced to leave your home at someone else's request is the same as being evicted.

Housing is not optional so the relationship is not the same as anything else.

There is a choice. Buy what you cannot afford and pray the cost of borrowing doesn't increase or live at the mercy of an amateur landlord. Some choice.

A correction is sorely needed so that choice instead becomes rent or buy. Not as it currently is, rent or commit financial suicide.

While buying is not an option for the financially responsible renting should be more like it is on the continent. Rent increases there can only be as high as inflation and the tenant is treated like a paying customer.

The situation is shocking here, that is undeniable.

[gaius]

Now you are just making words up. But I will continue my analogy. Food is not optional, but you have no "right" to force the supermarket to stock what you want regardless of its own decisions.

[onmydesk]

Eviction

noun 1. the action of expelling someone from a property; expulsion. "the forced eviction of residents" synonyms: expulsion, ejection, ousting, throwing out, drumming out, driving out, banishing, banishment, removal, dislodgement, displacement, clearance;

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You're plainly part of the over 40 cohort with buy to let property otherwise you wouldn't be so keen to bend rational thought in knots in order to make yourself feel better about the damage you cause to decent people.

If anyone else is reading this, here we see an example of how the damage continues to be done. There are many with a vested interest in the harmful status quo and so they pretend everything is fine for as long as they benefit.

I note you make no mention of societies in the rest of europe where renting is the norm and where work has been done to help remove exploitation from the system. Presumably you aren't in favour of that either so long as you're alright jack.

You are quite a sick individual and you will waste no more of my time. Your tenants have my sympathy.

[gaius]

You're plainly part of the over 40 cohort with buy to let property

Nope, neither. Just, umm, sane. I suppose you blame all this on Thatcher too...