Property taxes used to be considered the responsibility of the owner. With the shift to the poll tax, it became the responsibility of the person/tenant. Then alongside this the Tories removed most tenant rights, got rid of any taxes for landlords and sold off council housing. While at the same time making the state pension one of the worst in Western Europe.

Now, if you are poor you pay a huge proportion of you income on rent, and you will be renting until you die - which will be sooner as the state pension will make that same rent unaffordable.