Over 1,000 Social Housing Tenants Evicted In London

Over 1,000 social housing tenants in London were evicted from local authority properties last year. In 2015-16 local authorities reported to government that 6,430 evictions were carried out by court bailiffs, a decrease of 5% compared to 2014-15. This relates to a stock of around 1.61 million dwellings. In information gained from Freedom of Information requests by 24housing, the scale of the problem does not stop with the eviction figures. Over 5,600 social housing tenants sought advice from their London council – with some authorities not collecting the data at all. Read more n 24housing.