The Tory-led coalition's welfare reforms appear to have
led to a 60% increase in evictions due to rent arrears in the London Borough of
Hackney. Between April 2014, when the government's benefit cap and
controversial bedroom tax were introduced, and April 2014, 98 social housing
tenants were evicted in the borough, compared to 61 the year before. The data
was made public after the Green Party made a freedom of information request to
Hackney Council, which gathered its figures from its ALMO, Hackney Homes. Hackney
Homes evicted a total of 108 tenants over 2013/14, compared to 72 in 2012/13.
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