Posted on 02/24/2011 2:09:04 PM PST by mewykwistmas
Evicting a woman from her council home for failing to pay rent would breach her human rights, judges ruled yesterday.
Town Hall chiefs wanted to evict Rebecca Powell, who receives thousands of pounds in benefits, after she ran up more than £3,500 in arrears on the accommodation she was given because she was homeless.
But the Supreme Court said that – under the controversial European Convention on Human Rights – this would be a breach of the right to ‘respect for a person’s home’.
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What about the rights of the owner? And if she can get away with this, why can’t everyone in Europe do the same? Whether they own or rent.
instead of toad in the hole we obviously have toad in the home. Stupid Brits.........
Why rent to anybody? This is madness.
It's often been noted by economists that rent control causes the properties to deteriorate, because the owner can't make a reasonable return. Here, we have a de jure rent of zero. Now, that's price control!
It's also old style leftist government theft. Will our courts take notice of this international precedent?
This is what happens when people have rights “to” things. A right to health care = free, substandard health care at the expense of those who produce. A right to housing = free, substandard housing at the expense of property owners (they stll “own” it they just can’t use it to make a living though they still have an obligation to maintain it). A right to education = unending schooling that produces mostly illiterates and ignoramuses at the expense of those who taught themselves to produce tangible goods and useful services. And so on ad nauseum.
She doesn’t own the place, so technically, it’s NOT her home.
Small Britain continues to decline...
If she is getting thousands in bennys why not garnish those bennys?
[ Small Britain continues to decline... ]
Insignifigant Britain.....
This is equivalent to public housing. The owner is the 'council' i.e. taxpayer.
What this means is that any owner of a house should NEVER rent to anyone on subsistence, period!
I am optimistic that the recent lunacy displayed by the ECHR, and the fact that Parliament recently told them to stuff it when they tried to tell us to grant prisoners the vote means that we will (hopefully) be divorced from their jurisdiction soon. We are already seeing evidence that they are overstepping the mark and the people and their sovereign parliament are starting to push back.....
Then the tenant finally gets evicted, after 6 months or so of free rent, and on the way out they take everything that comes off and then fills the toilets with cement.
I wouldn't be a landlord, especially section 8, for nothing!
If it were mine, I’d just burn it to the ground.
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This is a European court telling UK how to run its home. I think the British are just about sick and tired of them
We had one gas meter for two apartments, to put another one in for the other apartment would have cost an arm and a leg. So we would pay 1/3 of the gas bill and each tenant paid 1/3. We found one of the tenants would keep the heat up to 78 degrees, she would answer the door in her shorts in the middle of winter. Total disrespect, why should they care? Someone else always pays.
In New Jersey it is a fair housing violation to refuse to rent to anyone with a LEGAL source of income on the basis of how the income is earned. That includes section 8 and other welfare. The only way to protect yourself from them is to insist on a good credit score, but the same standard has to apply to all applicants.
“This is what happens when people have rights “to” things.”
Just to divert the thread a little, this is a warning to those who would like to convene a Constitutional Convention supposedly to deal with a single issue. Once convened, the convnention would be mobbed by the left like Madison WI and you would get all kinds of new “rights” added.
But you do get some nice tax deductions, and most states are fair concerning evictions. I could tell some horror stories, but if you do some good background work, have a good lease, and follow your instincts, you won't have too many problems.
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