Honestly, nothing says that the Conservative government doesn't know what in the ever living fuck what to do more than them reinstantiating the fucking period of Rent-Control from A FIXED DATE OF FUCKING TODAY.
I mean, are you fucking kidding me. You are putting back in place a policy by all accounts over several decades was shown did absolutely fuck all at increasing the housing supply, but also, you are repeating the fucking mistake of the past by hard coding right into the legislation that it is a god damned fixed date. Like For Fucks Sake, an absolute idiot could have written better legislation than that. All they needed to do was make it a dynamic rolling date of "Unit Construction Date + 20 years" and there wouldn't be any problems at all because Units would be naturally going into the market, and then under control long after the owner had turned a fucking profit.
You know, actual sensible fucking policy. Instead of this bullshit that will put every new unit onto the market as not under control, to the point that it'll become an issue again that will need to be solved. Basically a case of shit or get off the pot. Either we have Rent Control, We don't, or if we have to have both, we have a system to move rental units from one regulatory scheme to the other. But we can't stop aimlessly swinging back and forth like this. That shit kills investor and developer confidence faster than doing nothing at all.
And don't even get me started on the rest of the fucking bullshit that came out today.
