The government has recently issued its much anticipated ‘Levelling Up’ white paper. The package includes twelve target areas, which will be focused on over the next ten years to improve equality in Britain. One are of measures includes housing and within this proposes the abolition of the Sec 21 route to landlords gaining possession of their properties (so called ’no fault’ eviction). In additional a new ‘Decent Homes Standard’ has been proposed together with a focus on tackling rogue landlords.
Little further detail has been published at this stage. Abolition of Sec 21 has been widely anticipated by the sector and it remains to be seen how the Sec 8 route will be strengthened and streamlined to help landlords gain possession of their properties in the several legitimate circumstances where they should be rightly allowed to. Regarding this and the Decent Homes Standard, we will obviously keep our readers up to date as details emerge.
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