Landlady has kept my passport after eviciting me - court told her to return it

[FlamingParrot]

Re: Landlady has kept my passport after eviciting me - court told her to return it

AA was a residential tenant. And if you are saying AA -v- London Borough of Southwark [2014] does not exist, you will find it at www.bailii.org

As cases go, its ruling is very powerful and is relevant in many tenancy eviction cases where the landlord has acted in a malfeasant manner.

Couldn't find it when I searched bailii then I saw you posted about it last year including a direct link:

Someone brought my attention to this case yesterday. Having read through it, it is pretty damning of the actions of a social landlord, in this case, a local authority, and the behaviour of its officers. It also highlights just how important the Human Rights Act/European Convention on Human Rights are in our everyday lives.

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2014/500.html

[ResponsetoFola]

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That is the whole idea but some people have no intention of finding any work.
Do you think it is appropriate for working people to be forced to commute from Birmingham and even France because the cost of transport is cheaper than the rents of living in London or closer to their place of their work.
The benefit caps means that families who want to live on benefits can move to the suburbans and out of Lavish homes in Hyde Park and Victoria where people who work in those areas can have an opportunity to earn an honest livelihood.

The whole idea of housing benefit is so that people can pay their rent when they can't work for whatever reason, and some housing benefit claimants actually do work but don't earn enough. Amongst HB tenants are also many families, where do you think they should live?

[Kati]

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That is the whole idea but some people have no intention of finding any work.

and some people cannot find work no matter how hard they try!

Do you think it is appropriate for working people to be forced to commute from Birmingham and even France because the cost of transport is cheaper than the rents of living in London or closer to their place of their work.

no, but there are hotels/b&b's that they could use if they are determined to commute so far from home :noidea:

The benefit caps means that families who want to live on benefits can move to the suburbans and out of Lavish homes in Hyde Park and Victoria where people who work in those areas can have an opportunity to earn an honest livelihood.

The benefit cap also means that people who lose their job (or cannot work due to illness etc...) are forced to the suburbs or even further afield, meaning they cannot then find work in the area as they would have to commute

[judgemental24]

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I cannot believe people still think that people who are unemployed have "Work shy scroungers" mentality in Responsetofola.

Me thinks people need to stop reading the Daily Mail and start living in the real world

[wales01man]

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Have to agree with judgemental 24 on this one

[MIKE770]

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My O.H. has lost count of job application thru internet ( the only way to apply these days), but she wiped out copy of 2,000+ e-mails yesterday, we get Ł20.00 on my pension top up for her, as if she carried on signing on they offered her a wacking>??????????????????????????????????// Ł1.48 per week, and the Bus fare to sign on ????????????????????? Ł2.,48.

She has only had 2 replies to job applications Sorry you do not qualify thanks for trying.
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Bring back the days of face to face interviews! Because it reminds me of the Trade training in the 60s, Theory & Practical, many of us scrape thru on the Theory and pass well over % on practical, whereby many pass theory and fail complexly on Practical.

[FlamingParrot]

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That is the whole idea but some people have no intention of finding any work.

Were you aware of the efforts your HB ex-tenants made/didn't make to find work?

There's also the matter of whether you'd really make enough money to pay the rent if you were working, especially in London!

The DWP likes to use slogans like "You're better off in work" and "Making work pay" but when you sit down and do the math, the figures don't always add up, especially if you are a family with children living in London.

Do you think it is appropriate for working people to be forced to commute from Birmingham and even France because the cost of transport is cheaper than the rents of living in London or closer to their place of their work.

From your own posts, you seem to be one of those landlords responsible for pushing up the cost of living in London and driving working people away from the capital:

These fraud tactics by landlords are a totally a different matter. As a landlord I definitely think your statistics are wrong and there is more potential for a Landlord to go bankrupt having housing benefit tenants. Perhaps if a landlord has property outside London in an area of low employment then they can rely on housing benefit tenants but certainly not in London.
Each housing benefit tenant I have evicted I have managed to replace with tenants paying higher rent willing to work for a living rather than sit and sip the tax payers money.

[FlamingParrot]

Re: Landlady has kept my passport after eviciting me - court told her to return it

That is the whole idea but some people have no intention of finding any work.
Do you think it is appropriate for working people to be forced to commute from Birmingham and even France because the cost of transport is cheaper than the rents of living in London or closer to their place of their work.

Commuting from France is a lifestyle choice, not a last resort for people who can't afford to live in London as you present it. In fact, these commuters tend to have well-paid jobs they find rewarding. This isn't exactly cheaper than renting in London when you add everything up. International commuters don't travel to and from home every day, they spend some nights in London during the week and the weekends in their home abroad. This means having to have a place to stay in London, some are lucky to have family they can stay with, others rent a studio or small flat and there are many who own a "pied ŕ terre" in London, one reason why small flats in central locations can fetch such high prices.

Birmingham is not in the same league but if people choose to commute from there it would also be out of choice, perhaps they have friends and relatives up there. There are many places in the London commuter belt where you can rent or buy without going as far as that and the majority of commuters do live within an hour's train ride from the London terminals.

The benefit caps means that families who want to live on benefits can move to the suburbans and out of Lavish homes in Hyde Park and Victoria where people who work in those areas can have an opportunity to earn an honest livelihood.

Are you a journalist by any chance? This statement is exactly the sort of thing newspapers like to publish because they know it sells, not because it's a reflection of reality. Once upon a time, there may have been a large family on benefits living in Central London, getting gzillion$ in HB, the newspapers would have reported it extensively precisely because it's such a rarity. Next thing you know, everyone thinks Central London is full of families on benefits living the high life, talk about misinformation! :mad2: :mad2:

In reality, the lavish homes in Hyde Park and Victoria you refer to are largely owned by foreigners, and I don't mean immigrants, I mean wealthy foreign residents who buy them as an investment and/or a pied ŕ terre in the capital. The people who work in the businesses around Hyde Park and Victoria (where there's lots of hotel, catering and retail work, not doubt highly paid, yeah right! :lol can hardly afford a box room in those areas, let alone a lavish home! :eek2:

[Mr $quandaŁot]

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This landlady should take heart and remember that you should always treat people as you would like to be treated.

She's lucky that her name has been removed. If she keeps on mistreating her tenants, karma will eventually catch up with her - one way or another.

There are no words offensive enough in English to describe people like that!

[jaydee]

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Hi
Why not just report the passport stolen and apply for another funds permitting.
https://www.gov.uk/government/upload..._June_2013.pdf

[MIKE770]

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The passport is the property of the government who issued it, contact the passport office and explain situation - they might suggest a complaint to the police, no landlord can withhold passports, sure they are not using it for illegal immigrants? it happens in most countries. they tried mine once in the far east.