Tenants face being unfairly evicted ‘every 15 minutes’ this summer – claim

They are correct it is highly unfair that the taxation was changed on existing properties. It is highly unfair that the PRS has to meet regulations that do not apply to private homes or social housing.

Remove these and the PRS may just recover, but all around me I see that the low cost rental is highly endangered if not already extinct.

If you work out the number of claimed S21's against the PRS stock, then the number of S21's is a tiny fraction of 1%.

define 'unfair'.

If they mean without reason? Totally legal at the present time - S21 does not require a LL to give details.

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Reply to the comment left by DSR at 18/07/2023 - 09:35
The number even reduces further if you take into consideration the Tenant requested S21 so that they can obtain social housing from the councils.

My house, my investment, my rules
No payment of rent, need to move out where they don't charge rent

Simple

I would like to challenge the claim of "unfairly" evicting tenants. I recently pulled data from my own business, which I will also share with NRLA.
I have served a total of 10 Section 21 notices in my 15 years as a landlord.
90% of them were because of Rent Arrears AND/or malicious damage to my property. NONE were "no-fault". The remaining 1 was a request by the tenant so he could get a council house (I told him it doesn't work this way with the council. He did not listen. It didn't work, he made himself homeless).
The really scary part for me is this:
50% of the notices went to court. For ALL notces that ended up in court, I used S21 route, so I could get rid of the tenants quickly. Had I used S8, I would still be battling it out in court, fighting disrepair claims, breathing space etc. etc. .
Ben Twomey has not actually provided any evidence of a genuine "no-fault" eviction (i.e "I feel like evicting today, here is your S21"). Just because someone wants to send their kids to a particular school, but can't afford the rent in the neighbourhood, does not make the landlord evil or a culprit. The current market dynamics are not down to the landlord, it's a combination of dwindling supply/rising demand plus rising costs and red tape for the landlord. Not because landlords are evil.

Government statistics on evictions demonstrate that the claims of Generation Rent are wildly exaggerated. But no politician, right or left, is prepared to stand up against this populist bulls##t.
Yes, there's certainly a crisis, but s21 evictions are not the cause, and implementation of rent controls and greater security in the PRS is not the solution..
These campaigners have conveniently forgotten what happened last time this was attempted (via the 1957 Housing Act). It almost destroyed the sector, and caused untold misery for tenants.
Later governments saw the PRS as a cheap way to increase the UK's totally inadequate housing supply, at no cost to the public purse. And the s21 provisions in the 1988 Housing Act - passed by the Tories - gave landlords confidence to invest, and lenders confidence to lend. Ending s21 will have the opposite effect.

Please define ' Unfairly ' because ALL Tenant groups believe Every eviction is Unfair !

Therein lies the problem of any dialogue between landlord and tenant groups.

Well he has to justify his generous wage by the occasional landlord bash.
Just wonder what he and his ilk would do in employment in the real world?
A job just slagging off and complaining about others,that’s G.R. for you.

We live in the UK in 2023, Fair is not a word that exists. There is what you can legally get away with and what you cannot legally get away with. Especially in this line of work.