Children are being evicted by their parents so they can
get a social house, a report has revealed. Politicians will meet to discuss Three Rivers District
Council’s homelessness strategy, which sets out how the authority will tackle
homelessness across the district. A council report claims some parents were
evicting their children so they could get their own accommodation and suggested
there was evidence linking the number of parental evictions to the lack of
social housing. Lack of social housing and high private sector rents were
identified as the main barriers to tackling homelessness in the district over
the next two years. Read more on the Watford Observer website.
