Fast-Track Eviction Plan for Landlords Criticised

Social landlords have claimed their tenants are being stigmatised by the government’s plans to evict tenants who commit anti-social behaviour miles from their homes. They have rounded on proposals to give housing associations and councils a discretionary power to evict tenants who commit crime - even when they have acted long distances away from where they live.
In response to a consultation on the proposals introduced following the summer’s riots, the Social Landlords Crime and Nuisance Group said linking the changes to the unrest ‘serves only to reinforce the negative stereotyping of social housing by some politicians, the media and commentators as being a significant contributor to disorder and other social ills’. Read more on Inside Housing.