Housing discrimination in the UK

The best intentions pave the way to Hell: housing problems in the UK

Why are most tenancy related fees banned by British government which dated back on 1 June 2019? These various fees were normally asked to pay for references, administration credit and immigration checks, renewing your tenancy when your fixed term contract ends. 

The good intention of policy change aims to protect the disadvantageous group—people without real estate in this wealthy society—from being deprived of their basic human right to have a decent place to live and provide an affordable approach for them in search of housing. 

As a result, the good intention turns into a bad result. As the agent hopes to gain profits from the landlord, they try to attract more than one person to view the house in one day, and then put them in a list for the landlord to consider who is the best candidate instead of first comes first serves. As such, students often get themselves into relatively undesirable places where are not on the lists of middle or working class (people with annual income). It seems that the only effortless choice for students is live in school or private-owned student accommodations. However, these housing rental prices are very likely to be as expensive as that of the properties not targeted for students. 

Potential tenants now have to compete for winning over the landlords’ hearts according to their values, making people like students more disadvantageous; what is worse is, in fact, students are asked to pay 6 months payment in one time before moving in with the same rental price as other groups. 

Ironically, when the money goes to the agent pocket, it actually origins from the tenants but not from the landlord, while the agent often forgets who their cash contributor is and only serves the landlord as the highness master. If the things go wrong, they often try to cover everything or strategically make the landlord as a bad guy to be their excuses to avoid losing their business. 

"The best intentions pave the way to Hell". Another example of the practice of governmental policy change.

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最好的意圖變成通向地獄的道路：英國的住房問題

為什麼英國政府禁止與租賃有關的費用其最早可追溯到2019年6月1日？通常要求這些各種費是用來支付參考資料，行政費和移民資格調查，並在您的定期合同終止時續簽您的租約。

政策改變的良好意圖旨在保護弱勢群體—這些在這個富裕社會中沒有房地產的人們--免遭剝奪擁有像樣居住地的基本人權，並為他們在尋找住房提供負擔得起的方法。

結果，好意變成壞結果。由於房仲希望從房東那裡獲得利潤，他們試圖在一天之內吸引一個以上的人來看房屋，然後將其列入房東的選單上，以讓其考慮誰是最佳候選人，而不是先到先服務 。因此，學生經常租到相對不好的地方，這些地方不在中產階級或工人階級（有年收入的人）的名單上。對於學生來說，唯一輕鬆的選擇似乎是住在學校或私人擁有的學生宿舍中。但是，這些房屋的租金價格很可能與非學生公寓的價格一樣昂貴。

現在，潛在的租戶必須根據自己的價值來贏得地主的心，使像學生這樣的人更加不利。更糟糕的是，實際上，學生被要求在入住前一次性支付6個月的房租費用，然後才能以與其他團體以相同的租金入住。

諷刺的是，當錢流到經紀人的口袋裡時，它實際上是從房客而不是房東那裡獲得的，而經紀人卻常常忘記了他們的金主是誰，而僅服侍房東陛下主人。如果事情出了問題，他們通常會試圖掩蓋一切，或者策略地使房東成為壞人，以此作為避免失去生意的藉口。

“最好的意圖成了通向地獄的道路”。政府政策改變實踐下的另一個例子