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As a stupid American I had to read that a few times before it clicked.
A religious leader is homeless but has apartments to rent? Oh, maybe they’re ministering to the homeless - but they raised the rents? . . Ohhhh. Right.
Read a bit more into it. Her tenants’ rental contract came to an end, and they were given the option of staying on while the house was put on the market. They chose to move out, and the house wasn’t sold, and it was put back on the rental market.
It’s a four-bed house, and the market rate for a three-bed flat in that area is almost £3500. So £4000 isn’t out of sync with the area.
They weren’t evicted. The rent is ridiculous because it’s London.
Even if they weren’t technically evicted, she’s a minister responsible for homelessness issues, and a landlord owning very expensive housing stock, who saw an opportunity to crank up her rents because circumstances had enabled her to clear our all her tenants. It’s still a very bad look.
One of the biggest reasons for effective homelessness (not living on the streets exactly but not having a permanent address) is the cost of housing which is in no small part being driven up by people buying to rent. So the fact that she even has rental properties in the first place is itself a problem.
She’s hardly going to vote to increase taxes on landlords if she herself is a landlord.
@floofloof it *is* a very bad look and now she’s resigned.
Labour!
