Councils and housing associations face grassroots
campaign pressure to stop evictions over Universal Credit arrears – as the
frontline of a fight for “fundamental policy change”. Highlighting the growing
End Section 21 campaign against no fault evictions, Jacob Mukherjee of
Generation Rent told the National Housing Summit a similar approach was needed
to the growing risk of arrears evictions as UC rolled out. The summit unanimously
agreed to put pressure on councils and housing associations not to undertake
such evictions. The threat of far-right exploiting the housing crisis also hit
home, with a rallying call for campaign groups to be on election standby. Read
more on 24housing.
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