Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities written question – answered at on 12 June 2023.
Andrew Rosindell
Conservative, Romford
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing councils with more power to evict tenants for anti-social behaviour.
Dehenna Davison
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
Local authorities are already able to de-prioritise perpetrators of anti-social behaviour who apply for social housing. This is part of the existing flexibilities local authorities have to set social housing allocation schemes that best meet local needs.
On 27th March 2023, the Government published the Anti-Social Behaviour Action Plan which can be found here.
In that Action Plan, we committed to exploring a 'three strikes and you're out' eviction expectation for all social landlords. After three strikes, the Government thinks it is right that perpetrators of anti-social behaviour face eviction and should be deprioritised for further social housing and will work with the sector to achieve this.
Our Renters (Reform) Bill also strengthens powers for private landlords to remove anti-social tenants.
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