Shelter attacks large rise in Section 21 evictions

Shelter attacks large rise in Section 21 evictions

11:02 AM, 13th February 2023, About 2 years ago 31

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Shelter has attacked Section 21 evictions as the leading cause of homelessness. 

Chief Executive, Polly Neate, has highlighted the 143% rise in ‘no fault evictions’ recently revealed by new government figures. Up from 792 households between Oct and Dec 2021 and 1,924 between Oct and Dec 2022.

The figures on repossession and evictions released by the Ministry of Justice show 6,101 landlords in England started Section 21 eviction court proceedings between October and December 2022 – up 69 per cent in a year.

‘No one wants to be forced out of their home’

Polly Neate said: “Every eviction notice that lands on someone’s doormat brings with it fear and uncertainty. No one wants to be forced out of their home, but these court figures show that’s happening to more and more private renters in this country.”

She added: “The chronic lack of social homes means the demand for overpriced and unstable private rentals has ballooned, and more people are being pitted against each other in the hunt for a home.

“Every day we hear from desperate families who’ve been served with no-fault eviction notices for daring to complain about poor conditions, or because their landlord wants to cash in on rising rents.”

Additional taxation rules are going to raise the cost for landlords

Despite the apparent large rise in these figures, other factors are at play.

An eviction ban (due to Covid) which was in place between March 2020 and May 2021, reduced the number of cases being heard by the courts and created a massive backlog.

A large amount of upcoming government legislation including a proposed ban on Section 21 evictions, Energy Performance Certificates (EPC) and additional taxation rules are going to raise the cost for landlords.

A report, carried out by Foundation Home loans, also revealed that landlords were more likely to sell a property rated D-E over the next 12 months.

This will decrease the number of private rented homes available and make the problems of homeless even worse.

 

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Reluctant Landlord

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14:05 PM, 13th February 2023, About 2 years ago

A S21 is given in order to take back possession of a property by the LL.

A S21 therefore CANNOT be attributed to 'a leading cause of homelessness' by either its use or by reason for its use AS NO GROUND IS GIVEN!

Typical Shelter - soundbites only for effect. Reality is actually slander!

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14:15 PM, 13th February 2023, About 2 years ago

Reply to the comment left by DSR at 13/02/2023 - 14:05furthermore, a S21 gives the tenant 2 clear months to find another property. The law gives tenants this safety net whereas you could argue the same contract condition is not provided to the LL (Only 1 moths notice is required)
A LL is NOT responsible for the state of the housing market
A LL is not responsible for a lack of council accommodation.
A LL is not responsible for a tenant going into rent arrears.
A LL is not responsible for a tenant ASBO issues
A LL is not responsible if the property is now deemed overcrowded if the tenant expands their family while in the rented property.

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14:21 PM, 13th February 2023, About 2 years ago

Shelter pay their staff so little, that their union is saying some of them are at risk of homelessness. You couldn't make it up.

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14:33 PM, 13th February 2023, About 2 years ago

Reply to the comment left by Paul Essex at 13/02/2023 - 12:39
I too thought that would be the 'silver-lining', but apparently not...certainly if the evicted-due-to-arrears tenant has children, it will be the *children* the council rehouse (and by default, their parents too). So a whole bunch of evicted tenants because of their own (now provable) faults, won't have quite the impact we'd like.

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15:52 PM, 13th February 2023, About 2 years ago

Every action has its equal and opposite reaction.
Shelter is a homeless charity not a representative of tenants who have homes.
Our tenants are not homeless but may be Shelter's action will increase their membership.

The whole system was working well. Fair enough, there were bad landlords but so were there bad tenants.

Putting Shelter as tenant's representative was a big mistake. They don't understand the tenants at all.

I would like to know how many tenants are their members.

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16:58 PM, 13th February 2023, About 2 years ago

Reply to the comment left by DSR at 13/02/2023 - 14:15
DSR, you are correct.
The landlord is not responsible for existing or new problems a tenant may have.

In fact the landlord is the solution to one of the problems that pre-exist. That is the lack of accommodation for renters

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17:03 PM, 13th February 2023, About 2 years ago

Reply to the comment left by David Houghton at 13/02/2023 - 14:21
Didn't they go on strike for more money?

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17:06 PM, 13th February 2023, About 2 years ago

Reply to the comment left by Richie at 13/02/2023 - 17:03
One thing for sure, I would never knowingly rent to a Shelter employee pretty sure this would go for most of us.

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17:48 PM, 13th February 2023, About 2 years ago

Reply to the comment left by DSR at 13/02/2023 - 14:05
Exactly, it's like saying a conviction for robbery is a leading cause of imprisonment.

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18:37 PM, 13th February 2023, About 2 years ago

Did they really not know this would happen?
Shes just trying to justify her none job .

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