Perhaps there were no kind streets in the UK 90 years ago but that last sentence is the opposite of my experience. I have rented many properties over the decades in some of the roughest neighborhoods and I have never had a landlord that matched that description. If I did I could just leave. If they are a real a*hole then they risk vandalism to their valued property or a lawsuit.
Usually when I meet someone who has a "nightmare" landlord they usually don't have basic handy skills or are petty/greedy/dumb/nightmare people. The article drives this home citing a "100% capital gains tax" i.e., landlords should work for them for free. There is no interest in fairness and no brain cells fire when it comes to having empathy for the other side. Just a sprinkling of "me" neurons and not much else.
Usually when I meet someone who has a "nightmare" landlord they usually don't have basic handy skills or are petty/greedy/dumb/nightmare people. The article drives this home citing a "100% capital gains tax" i.e., landlords should work for them for free. There is no interest in fairness and no brain cells fire when it comes to having empathy for the other side. Just a sprinkling of "me" neurons and not much else.