Speaking as someone in Manchester near where that child died, also in a house constantly fighting mould…
The mould is caused by our inability to heat our homes due to the huge cost of running heating.
I hate landlords as much as the next Mancunian, but the root cause of the issue isn’t them (unless you’re going to force them to make their rents reasonable). It’s the cost of living crisis, which itself has many for causes… from government austerity plans to capitalists squeezing every penny out of us from both ends - what we earn and what we must spend.
Yes homes with mould need to be cleaned and repaired, but if you don’t solve the issue of WHY it was able to take hold in the first place? It’ll just come back again.
We’ve not been able to run the heating throughout our house for two years now, it’s just so wildly expensive. I wish everyone in our situation the best of luck 🫂
The energy induced cost of living crisis is not helping, but many people would be able to better endure it if they lived in more energy efficient housing that was properly maintained and insulated. Which doesn’t happen when so much housing stock is controlled by rent seeking private landlords.
The country has failed to ensure adequate investment in housing and is now reaping the results of that.
They need to build more high density housing downtown. That requires government intervention to force buy the land and tell the NIMBYers and people that want endlessly increasing housing prices to fuck off. That way there is alternatives and people can get modern homes that are actually at market value rather than artificially inflated. The huge amount of immigration is just making things worse.
A LVT like Wales are bringing in would also help.
We live in a pretty mild climate very little heating is actually required to keep mould away it just requires proper ventilation and insulation.
Speaking as someone in Manchester near where that child died, also in a house constantly fighting mould…
The mould is caused by our inability to heat our homes due to the huge cost of running heating.
I hate landlords as much as the next Mancunian, but the root cause of the issue isn’t them (unless you’re going to force them to make their rents reasonable). It’s the cost of living crisis, which itself has many for causes… from government austerity plans to capitalists squeezing every penny out of us from both ends - what we earn and what we must spend.
Yes homes with mould need to be cleaned and repaired, but if you don’t solve the issue of WHY it was able to take hold in the first place? It’ll just come back again.
We’ve not been able to run the heating throughout our house for two years now, it’s just so wildly expensive. I wish everyone in our situation the best of luck 🫂
The energy induced cost of living crisis is not helping, but many people would be able to better endure it if they lived in more energy efficient housing that was properly maintained and insulated. Which doesn’t happen when so much housing stock is controlled by rent seeking private landlords.
The country has failed to ensure adequate investment in housing and is now reaping the results of that.
They need to build more high density housing downtown. That requires government intervention to force buy the land and tell the NIMBYers and people that want endlessly increasing housing prices to fuck off. That way there is alternatives and people can get modern homes that are actually at market value rather than artificially inflated. The huge amount of immigration is just making things worse.
A LVT like Wales are bringing in would also help.
We live in a pretty mild climate very little heating is actually required to keep mould away it just requires proper ventilation and insulation.