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No fault evictions to be banned
Thursday 16th June 2022
Renting: No-fault evictions to be banned in England
By Eleanor Lawrie
BBC News
Published7 hours ago
Landlords are to be prevented from evicting tenants in England without giving a reason, under proposals published in a government White Paper.
The Renters Reform Bill will also end blanket bans on benefit claimants or families with children - and landlords must consider requests to allow pets.
Housing charity Shelter called it a "game-changer".
But landlords associations said the government must ensure the changes would not worsen the housing crisis.
Of all the private renters leaving accommodation in 2019 and 2020, 8% had been asked to go by their landlord, the Department for Levelling up said.
No-fault evictions are already banned in Scotland for tenancies starting after 1 December 2017
The Welsh government says no-fault-eviction notice periods will be extended to six months by the end of 2022
Legislation to extend the notice period for tenancies is going through the Northern Ireland Assembly
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