Council calls for ban on no-fault evictions amid housing crisis

Council calls for ban on no-fault evictions amid housing crisis

0:02 AM, 20th September 2024, About A week ago 25

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A council warns more people could be pushed into temporary accommodation without urgent action from the government.

Colchester City Council has written to Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary Angela Rayner urging the government to take action to tackle the housing crisis.

The council is calling on the government to ban no-fault evictions and offer more support to councils to tackle homelessness.

Ban no-fault evictions

The council warns with rising mortgage and rent costs many people including renters are being forced into homelessness or temporary accommodation.

Colchester City Council is calling on the government to make the Renters’ Rights Bill a priority in Parliament to ban no-fault evictions.

Other measures include adjusting housing benefits to match current rent levels, ensuring rent stays affordable for the most vulnerable.

The council is also calling for increased support to help manage the rising costs and demands of preventing homelessness, along with freezing the Right to Buy scheme to ease pressure on social housing stock.

Welcome promises of reform

Cllr David King, Leader of Colchester City Council, said: “We welcome promises of reform and ask the new government to act on our, or similar calls for action. We will play our part, supportive of their growth and housing aims. But we need infrastructure support, and for the government to make it viable for us to improve our housing stock and to also provide yet more affordable homes.”

“Colchester City Council has also committed to working closely with neighbouring authorities and local MPs, including Pam Cox, Sir Bernard Jenkin, and Priti Patel, to ensure housing remains a priority issue for the region. The council’s message is clear: housing is at the forefront of local concerns, and immediate government action is needed.”

The council is also asking the government to address council housing stock and finances by working with the All-Party Parliamentary Group Inquiry to ease the financial burden on local authorities, allowing them to reinvest in housing while managing the rising costs of regulation, repairs, and environmental modernisation.


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Ian Narbeth

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15:15 PM, 20th September 2024, About 7 days ago

Here is a true statement: Section 21 notices do not cause homelessness so abolishing section 21 notices will not abolish or even reduce homelessness,

And another:
Extending from eight to thirteen weeks the arrears before a landlord can seek possession for non-payment will benefit a few bad-payers. It will lead to landlords increasing rent to cover the cost of rent insurance or the self-insurance risk of default. Good payers will subsidise the bad.

Why is this so hard for MPs to understand?

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15:38 PM, 20th September 2024, About 7 days ago

Reply to the comment left by Ian Narbeth at 20/09/2024 - 15:15
they would probably understand it if they took their fingers out of their ears or took 2 mins out from giving airtime to Shelter et al...

At the end of the day... none of this will be 'their fault', regardless, because the issue is only going to get worse not better.

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15:47 PM, 20th September 2024, About 6 days ago

Reply to the comment left by Ian Narbeth at 20/09/2024 - 15:15
Yes Ian exactly.
Just like UC causing more rent arrears, waiting 2 months plus, causes us to charge more next time.

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16:01 PM, 20th September 2024, About 6 days ago

Reply to the comment left by Ian Narbeth at 20/09/2024 - 15:15
also not just about the arrears Ian, it can be about covering potential property damage too (which exceeds the deposit amount)

I see tenants not bothering to read the details of the planned 'pet request' inclusion, and just getting them anyway, thinking that the legislation means it is 'their right' regardless.

The there are the (no doubt expanding) SL costs, the PRS ombudsman fee, the national database fee....

To comply with the 'no bidding' embargo I forsee accommodation being advertised as

'3 bed house to rent at no more than £XXXX per month. All sensible offers will be considered as part of the application process. Full referencing including rental history and credit check will be undertaken and a home owning guarantor may be required'.

Cider Drinker

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19:50 PM, 20th September 2024, About 6 days ago

The PRS will shrink. To be clear, there will be fewer private rental properties.

Social Housing cannot replace the houses lost in the PRS.

Some of those private renters that lose their homes as the PRS shrinks will be in a position to buy their own homes.

Those unfortunate private renters that cannot afford to buy their own homes will be left to fight for Social Housing or will remain in temporary accommodation.

Starmer can try to build as many homes as chooses. The low paid won’t be able to buy them and landlords won’t buy them because the PRS is no longer attractive to investors. So, who will buy them?

Stella

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22:04 PM, 20th September 2024, About 6 days ago

Reply to the comment left by Cider Drinker at 20/09/2024 - 19:50
Starmer, Rayner, Pennycook are so short-sighted in their thinking focused only on clearing the way for BTR.
When they have succeeded in strangling the PRS do they think that the BTR shareholders will be happy if profits are adjusted downwards so that they can house people on low pay or on universal credit.

Something does not smell right and the people who will suffer will be the tenants many of whom will be in temporary accommodation for ever.

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22:53 PM, 20th September 2024, About 6 days ago

Reply to the comment left by Keith Wellburn at 20/09/2024 - 10:31
Good points made.

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7:43 AM, 21st September 2024, About 6 days ago

Reply to the comment left by Reluctant Landlord at 20/09/2024 - 15:38
Here’s another true statement.

Landlords don’t mind selling up. It frees up their cash to spend on their retirement, takes away all of the stress of being a landlord and gives their children a hassle-free inheritance.

Bristol Landlord

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8:06 AM, 21st September 2024, About 6 days ago

Reply to the comment left by Jo Westlake at 20/09/2024 - 12:21
The Govt knows exactly how essential to landlords is the existence of Section 21, but eliminating S21 fits their agenda to drive out all independent landlords and replace us with corporate landlords.

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8:11 AM, 21st September 2024, About 6 days ago

Reply to the comment left by Cider Drinker at 20/09/2024 - 19:50
I don’t believe Starmer has the slightest intention to build any homes, that was all hot air to help get elected. He will be throwing tenants and landlords alike under the bus in order to pander to the corporations.

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