Rishi Sunak is having a busy week. After announcing his crackdown on anti-social behaviour over the weekend, he set out a slew of new promises yesterday to ban laughing gas, increase fines for littering and give police powers to ‘move on’ what he deems ‘nuisance’ beggars.
Among them was a proposal that would allow landlords to evict tenants with just two weeks’ notice if they are disruptive to neighbours through noise, drug use or damage to property. This would apply to all new private rental tenancies. Apart from the fact that two weeks is a very, very short amount of time for a tenant to find a new home, these things seem broadly sensible – after all, landlords are providing a house, but it’s not through goodwill: they deserve for their property to survive untainted, and genuinely disruptive tenants are difficult.
Dropping the barrier at which landlords have the right to quickly evict tenants will also surely add to the strain on social housing
These proposals were outlined last
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