Eviction after 50 years

Hmm, in old money that converts back to £25 so that's a very long time without a rise in rent.

Bit rich looking for the state to buy the house for them if they already own a house. They’ve been paying less than many in social housing.

The family are using public platforms to try and influence a favorable outcome so yes people are entitled to look for all of the details before making up their minds.

RBB clearly states that they are over thresholds for assistance so it's hard to know what they actually expect from this.

It's downright distasteful if they own another property yet they are on looking for state intervention in this. RBB should clarify all of the details and background before acting the maggot. It's also very wrong that they have dragged this on for so long and left a landlord high and dry if they had another property to move too.

Don't piss on my back and tell me it's raining.

On the soap box a bit yourself I think.How can you assume what they spent their disposable income on?The two examples you have picked are way over the top.

If the 30 quid a week figure being quoted is true, then what the actual fcuk have they been spending the rest of their money on for the past several decades? I pay multiples of that to live at home with my parents!

maybe it isnt but if the rent has been fixed since the 80s then it probably isn't far off.

Where does it say they own a house?

Loving all the empathy in this thread since we know nothing about their personal circumstances outside of cheap rent.

Rental market is in bits all over to different degrees. Good luck living anywhere.

I think they should be homeless anyway. Am I doing this right.

while i agree with the start of your point, i disagree that older-style council estates are a good idea - these generally lead to 'ghettos'. having a certain percentage of private developments held for state-funded accommodation is fine if: A - designed well and B - tenants are required to maintain the property to a certain standard. the problem is there is a large number (majority even) who take advantage of the current system and make it unattractive for others to live in close proximity

It has nothing to do with empathy.

It's about future planning. They've been renting for 50 years ....what did they think was going to happen when the landlord died? It's not like the landlord was in their 40's and the death was sudden!

I honestly don't know how people can wander around seemingly clueless in life and when it gets tough they expect someone else to bail them out.

Part of the reason the rental sector is in bits is because of tenants like these overholding.

Her mother was the original tenant. She never moved out. The hubby moved in.....sure why wouldn't he on bargain rent!

Baffling. I don't necessarily have any issue with the mother who originally rented the house in 1958 and came to an agreement with the landlord in the 80s. That's their business.

How on earth the children assumed they could also live in the house then for life I don't know. You're 55 years old. You could have looked at buying a house in the late 90s.

If buying wasn't an option for you fair enough. But surely around age 30 you'd start sussing options or rental opportunities for your future

You've had at least a quarter of a century to make plans for a scenario that was inevitably going to happen.

And now you want the govt to buy the house and rent it back to you. No personal responsibility whatsoever.

Any ESB electrician by the time he is 55 is earning 80-100k a year unless he is a lazy hoor

Barrett and his champagne socialist crew would rob the shirt off yer back for populism. They don’t give two hoots about the other side, landlords/homeowners!!

Legislating to deny people the freedom to do what they feel is best for them with their own property is a worrying trend. Where does it stop?

The govt. have screwed over the smaller landlord to make up for their own failures in housing.

This family have to go. The fact they dont qualify for HAP of welfare hosuing supports speaks volumes. However i do have sympathy. If it were Mags cash and the brood they would be housed for free. They obviously work and are penalised for that.

Its a strange case really. In my view they are wrong but i do feel huge sympathy given they are obviously contributors to the tax base.

The majority of private renters are contributors to the tax base.

Renting privately is a temporary measure, it's not a house for life. A landlord can choose or at least should be able to choose when they want to sell. This overholding lark needs to stop.....I can't test drive a car and say actually this is now mine, I refuse to return it, or go to a hotel and refuse to leave the room.....why are people allowed to stay in houses not belonging to them?

House prices in the 90's when this couple would have been in their 20's were reasonable enough (obviously they may not have been together then) however the crash came in what 2008/9 anyone with abit of savings behind them could have bought a decent house for a reasonable price. They would have been in their 30/40's. Many couples alot younger than them managed it!

If anyone in this story has my sympathy it's the landlord...they seemed to be a decent skin and kept the rent low ...tbh I actually feel queasy for the want of the better word as I think this landlord was majorly taken advantage of, probably too old to manage their affairs right. That's another days thread I suppose!

Doesn't seem that these particular renters need much sympathy.

Seems the daughter just stayed in the house and continued to pay the rent. I know a number of people in this situation. Usually, its the youngest or most dependent child. This can go on for generations in council houses. Obviously with private property, this day will eventually come. But the type who stays in the house is generally the type that ignores reality.

Random personal details not in the public domain are not required here (even if they were in the public domain, they don't add anything useful)

I meant rather that the ideologies that he espouses have made and continue to make neoliberal agendas possible here.