A record number of British renters are facing eviction from their homes, a new analysis of the country’s housing crisis shows.
More than 100 tenants are losing their homes a day, with analysts blaming the spiraling costs of renting a property and a long-running freeze to housing benefit for the rising number of evictions, The Guardian reports.
According to a study by the Cambridge Center for Housing and Planning Research for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), over 40,000 tenants in England were evicted in 2015, an increase of a third since 2003 and the highest level recorded.
High numbers of “no-fault” evictions by private landlords are driving the increase in rents and over 80% of the extra evictions occurred under a Section 21 notice, which gives a tenant two months to leave.
There is no need for the landlord to give a reason or any wrongdoing on the part of the tenant.
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