Shelter hits out over rising tenant eviction numbers

Again, Section 8 has a number of ‘no fault’ grounds for eviction.
How many tenants did landlords grant new tenancies to in that same period? How many first time buyers were able to buy their first property as a result of landlords selling up? How much did the Public Purse benefit by due to landlords selling up?
Don’t Shelter (who don’t provide shelter to anyone) not realise that the mere threat of the Renters (Reform) Bill is the reason that some tenants are being evicted?

21000 evictions on 11 million renters - shelter numbers is just 0.2%, meaning that put another way 99.8% of the renters in the UK are secure in their homes. Housing is an absolute shipwreck and Shelter are part of the problem, not part of the solution.

These numbers completely conflict with the other article this morning arguing the same thing??????

so less than a third of S21 issued actually saw people evicted then.Less than 10,000.

Coming from a renter base of 11 million.

Of course there was a bloody increase from 2022 as there were still restrictions in place at the time and the courts were so bloody slow!
Probably LL's started the eviction process but due to delays never got possession until 2023.

going to be very interesting when all reasons have to be given for possession.

The are going to be hung up by their own noose when they realise there is always a good reason why a LL evicts....

There is nothing stopping any LL claiming they want to sell on S8 AND also listing the discretionary reasons too. This will show it is indicative of the discretionary reasons why the LL is then listing a mandatory ground....

Maybe Shelter could lead by example and start a housing company and rent to some of the vulnerable they seek to defend? Not as a Housing Association with all the tax advantages and no license fees,, but as a Small Landlord with 8 or 10 properties in each of half a dozen cities?

“Renters are marched out of their homes in their thousands’” yet more of the same old Shelter anti-landlord rhetoric, implying innocent tenants who always pay the rent, never cause any damage and don’t behave antisocially are arbitrarily thrown onto the streets, Shelter have plenty of money and Government support, why don’t they reorganise as a housing association and exclusively house some of the innocent tenants who have been “marched out their homes” and show us PRS landlords how it should be done. Of course they won’t. Those who won’t just sit on their backsides and criticise those that do.
Polly says “When they head for the ballot box, England’s 11 million renters will remember who stood with them.” Does this mean Shelter are going to be putting up candidates? Don’t think Polly will be standing, she earns more than an MP already.

Reply to the comment left by northern landlord at 09/02/2024 - 15:59
Earns?

Gets paid, more like.

Reply to the comment left by Fred M BARRETT at 09/02/2024 - 15:02
The most constructive thing Shelter could do is act as full guarantor for tenants who otherwise cannot find accommodation. If Landlords knew their expenses and costs would be paid by Shelter a lot of the issues would vanish.

Of course, once Shelters coffers had been bled dry, they might start to appreciate what the PRS has to deal with on a regular basis.

Agree, and with their money they could build or buy housing to rent out.

They like to give the impression they provide 'Shelter',