Campaigners In ‘Frontline Fight’ Against Universal Credit Evictions

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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