Shelter Needs to End Campaign against Landlords

Data, published jointly between Shelter and British Gas suggest that over the last year, 200,000 tenants in the private rented sector have “faced eviction” because they asked their landlord to fix a problem in their home. However Shelter has ignored the inconvenient truths. Based on Shelter’s data, which indicates that there are  9 million tenants in the private rented sector in England, 200,00 is  only a little over 2 per cent of all tenants. It should also be noted that these figures refer only to tenants facing evictions and not actual evictions. Official figures show that in 2013 the total for all tenants having their homes repossessed by the courts amounted to 37,739. This figure equates to only 0.5 per cent of all rented homes in England.  Shelter admit to scaling up the figures from their research. Shelter also fails to explain how many of the tenants were failing to pay their rent on time and how many of the “evictions” were as a result of tenancies coming to a close. Read more on the RLA website.