Paula Barker, Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree, is the latest opposition member of parliament to ask for immediate action on banning Section 21 evictions.
She has told MPs: "The emerging picture is clear. Section 21 evictions are going up. We saw a 26 per cent increase during the first quarter of this year.
“We are now three years down the track from the publication of the 2019 Conservative manifesto promising to end section 21. I note that the Minister has committed … to ending section 21 in this Parliament, but may I push further and urge the Department to commit to bringing forward emergency legislation early in the new year to end this scandal, working with the Opposition to do so?
“Will those on the Government Benches accept that, through their inaction, the Department is leaving tenants vulnerable to eviction in the meantime?”
Her intervention - in a question and answer session with junior housing minister Felicity Buchan - received the standard response that the government was committed to scrapping Section 21 at the earliest opportunity, although no date was given to suggest when this would be.
Barker’s question came shortly before new statistics from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities showing 5,940 households in England were issued with a Section 21 eviction in the three months to the end of June.
This is lower than the previous quarter’s 6,400 households, but an increase on the same period in 2021 when 3,380 notices were issued. The rise partly reflects the end of an eviction ban in spring 2021.
The latest DLUHC data also reveals 33,570 households assessed as being “threatened with homelessness” - a quarter were said to be because of the loss of a private tenancy.
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They are focusing on the symptoms of a broken PRS, not the actual problem.
Absolutely. Have they stopped to wonder why landlords are evicting - could it be that we are exiting the market? And why could that be?
Labour wants us to lose control of our properties as soon as possible.
They really worry me, god knows what they will bring in.
Simon:
1) Rent controls
2) Eviction bans
3) Rent freezes
4) Rent reductions
5) Rent repayment orders
6) Obligations for landlords to apologise to tenants for hurting their feelings
7) Compulsory purchase of landlords homes
8) Tenants' right to buy landlords properties at a price some lefty dreams up
9) More £30,000 fines. Increased now to maybe £50,000 due to inflation
10) More criminal convictions for landlords and plenty more freedom for tenants to be absolute ***** without any fear of any comeback
11) Free pauper's burial service for landlords once they have been milked dry.
So where is this new improved section 8 ?
Who will trust the government or MPs if they did ban it??? Section 21 is the current law. Respect it. Within their precious rental reform they say ‘landlords will be able to get their property back’. It will be “written into law”. Hahahahahahahahaha.
I am selling because it’s just too scary being a landlord knowing politicians think they can ‘break the laws’ at their own whims.
Paula Barker's Wikipedia page states:
1) Barker was employed in local government for almost 30 years. SAYS IT ALL DOESN'T IT. NEVER HAD A REAL JOB ALL OF HER LIFE.
2) On day one of her employment, she went to find the union rep and joined NALGO. Within the first year of her employment, she was balloted for industrial action and joined colleagues on the picket line.
THIS JUST SCREAMS SHES A LAZY MILITANT SO AND SO.
3) ...where she progressively became more active in her trade union, UNISON.
MORE TROUBLE
4) ...she has served as the Shadow Minister for Homelessness and Rough Sleeping since October 2022. SHOWS WHERE HER PRIORITIES LIE. EDDIE HUGHES, BEHIND THE DREADFUL WHITE PAPER WAS MINISTER FOR ROUGH SLEEPING.
I think the word you were searching for Nick might have been C 0 W, if so I agree
Well there are many four letter words I would have gone to first!
These people have never had any real responsibility or jobs. Rachel Reeves has says countless times "we should make landlords pay". It's politically acceptable to kick landlords so they are all doing it. They won't stop. I would say it can't be any better under Labour. Reluctantly I say it could be a worse under them.
Anyone wanted to continue being a landlord is mad.
The overwhelming majority of tenants leave a property of their own free will. They have finished university, work contract has finished, got a new job elsewhere in the country, met a new partner and decided to cohabit, had a baby and need somewhere bigger, just fancied living somewhere else, saved a deposit to buy a place, etc.
Of the very small percentage of tenancies that end in eviction the vast majority would still be allowed under the new proposals.
So just how few tenants would be 'helped' by the abolition of the current Section 21? Are we talking a few dozen, a few hundred or a couple of thousand? How does that compare with the countless thousands who are currently losing their homes because of the threat of landlords losing Section 21?
These dullards, sorry politicians, should focus on why Landlords are using section 21 and why the number is increasing.
It would be so easy to stop it.
All they have to do is a U-turn. State that they completely got it wrong and will try harder next time.
Obviously this won't happen, so if you are mortgaged as a Landlord best look to sell or pay down that mortgage ASAP, it's not going to get any better no matter what they call this Reform.
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