A housing association has introduced a clause banning gang membership to all its tenancy agreements. Viridian Housing’s tenancies will stipulate ‘you or anyone living with you must not become a member of a gang or allow a member of a gang to visit the property’.
The organisation’s in-house legal and anti-social behaviour teams worked together to develop and implement the clause, which has taken the Met Police’s definition of a gang to be a ‘group of individuals involved in persistent criminality for some form of personal gain (this includes profit and/or to gain or to demonstrate status) which is causing significant harm to the community and/or is of cross border concern’ . Read more on Inside Housing.
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