Shelter issued new figures recently suggesting there is a
crisis in the private rented sector due to landlords evicting tenants for
complaining about standards of their rented property –“revenge evictions” as they
now call them. However, if you look more closely at these figures, their
argument starts to unravel. Shelter’s figures suggest there has been a rise in
complaints concerning retaliatory or revenge evictions. The difficulty is how
to prove that issuing possession proceedings really is an act of retaliation
against a tenant. Simply serving a
Section 21 notice should not be classed as a revenge eviction. There are many
reasons a landlord would need or want to serve one, and so long as they do it
the right way, it is their right to do so for whatever reason they think
fit. Read more on the National Landlords
Association website.
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