Parents Evicting Their Own Children to Get Them into a Social House

Children are being evicted by their parents so they can get a social house, a report has revealed. Politicians will meet to discuss Three Rivers District Council’s homelessness strategy, which sets out how the authority will tackle homelessness across the district. A council report claims some parents were evicting their children so they could get their own accommodation and suggested there was evidence linking the number of parental evictions to the lack of social housing. Lack of social housing and high private sector rents were identified as the main barriers to tackling homelessness in the district over the next two years. Read more on the Watford Observer website.