Landlords selling up leaving 2,000 households a month in England facing homelessness

The article isn't about feeling sympathetic to land lords. It's that they are doing what you want, selling their houses and in doing so, kicking out tenants who now have nowhere to live. As rents have gone up astronomically round about them, they now cant afford them and are applying for council houses (for which there are big waiting lists), or paying more expensive rents as they've been forced to move and moving from a lower rent property into the current market means likely paying double what they were before.

So it's about the renters. The landlords are doing what you wanted and selling their second houses due to fees, costs and uncertainty. We can hope in the long term that brings overall house prices down, but in the short term its just kicking a lot of tenants that are paying more reasonable rents out of their homes into the middle of a worse market than they likely started renting in.

But as long as this helps prices go down in the long run for house purchases by a minor amount, there's less places for people to rent that can't afford mortgages and rent prices rocket up in part because of this and the demand to rent any property increases (the only way we got our last flat was that we didn't view it, sent all of our documents immediately and said we would just take it with no viewing based on pictures,they had hundreds of applicants by the next day) & you aren't affected, great I guess.