An eviction notice is served on older tenants EVERY 16 minutes – Shelter claims

We need to understand WHY landlords are serving Section 21 notices before we can suggest remedies. If they are being served because the landlord wishes to sell, the RRB does nothing to help.

Serving Section 21 does NOT increase homelessness. It makes one family homeless and releases a property for another family to call their home. The net effect is zero.

What does increase homelessness is a burgeoning population. We are not allowed to mention why the population is increasing.

If a Landlord has issued a Section 21, he she clearly wants their house back. For whatever reason. What is wrong with that?
They want it back. There is a reason. And somehow are getting it back. Why make it harder?
Cause the harder u make it, u then gonna' have no houses in the first place to give these people.
And no houses for these people to move to when the Landlord wants it back.

What are Shelter & Generation rent not understanding about this? Every time they talk like this, they make another 1000 people homeless.

And 93% of renters over the age of 55 HAVEN'T received a S21 notice in the past 3 years!
And where did they get the 7% figure from in the first place? Extrapolated from a sample of half a dozen contacts perhaps?

Reply to the comment left by Martin Thomas at 06/09/2023 - 10:26
Great figures putting it in the truth.

When homeowners move house, there are no voids. You move in on the day that the previous owners move out. Simple.

With renting, there is typically a void period. This is because the move out date isn’t guaranteed until the tenants leave, the keys are returned and a surrender document is signed. Then, there is the unknown length of time required to make the property suitable to let. Potentially time-consuming repairs and copious amounts of cleaning followed by the search for new tenants. The new tenants need to give notice to their current landlord or pay for two homes during the transition period. All of this means that rental properties remain empty, often for months, between tenants.

With average tenancies being around 4 years, if the average void was 2 months then that’s more than 4% of rental capacity wasted.

We need a system whereby move out dates are set in stone. Just like completion dates when houses are bought. We also need tenants to move in and allow repairs and cleaning to be done after they move in - just as homeowners need to do whenever they move.

Failing that, we need to change the owner vs renting ratio in order to improve property usage.

Reply to the comment left by Martin Thomas at 06/09/2023 - 10:26
'... the equivalent of 90 older tenants...' What does that actually mean?

I imagine that 7% may be an average rate for all age demographics?

Polly Neate is a master of spin. She will never allow objective analysis of the data to get in the way of a good headline.

Saying that s21 is the cause of homelessness is like saying being sacked is the cause of unemployment. It misses the bigger picture that there is a reason for it.
If Ben Beadle said: "We’ll still be stuck with the same number of houses unless the government comes up with different types of incentives to encourage people to bring their properties to the market" he missed an opportunity to say that there may very well be even fewer houses to rent as some landlords withdraw from the market.
Far from helping tenants as a whole, I believe the Renters Reform Bill will harm tenants by pushing up rents and making landlords be more choosy about tenants with less than perfect references. Nobody wins from this. Landlords lose, tenants lose and the Tories will lose votes at the next General Election.

The biggest single issue facing landlords is that it has a weak mouthpiece when it comes to lobbying. It needs a highly organised privately funded company to lobby against the likes of Shelter on these issues. Property118? How about it. I would donate.