Public Disorder: Eviction from Social Housing
Question
11.16 am
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Communities and Local Government (Baroness Hanham): My Lords, during and since the riots, a number of discussions have taken place between Ministers and local authorities, and eviction was one of many issues discussed. The Department for Communities and Local Government is currently consulting on proposals to extend the existing discretionary ground for possession for anti-social behaviour to include tenants or family members who have been convicted of the sort of criminality witnessed during the recent riots, wherever that criminality took place.
That is indeed the current proposal, shoe horned in to the consultation on the mandatory ground of possession some 3 days after the riots.
ReplyDeleteFor more, see
http://nearlylegal.co.uk/blog/2011/08/losing-localism/
and for light relief
http://nearlylegal.co.uk/blog/2011/08/aint-no-cicero/