Landlords rush to evict tenants as Section 21 ban looms

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Chris Thomas, spokesperson for Porchlight, discusses the implications of the Labour government's upcoming ban on section 21 evictions for renters and landlords

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00:00We're no strangers to it. We work with a lot of people who've lost their homes because

00:07the landlord has used a section 21 eviction notice to get rid of them basically within two months

00:15and sometimes that could be because the landlord wants to sell up. Sometimes they're

00:24looking to turn their property into like an Airbnb which is seen as more lucrative

00:30I should probably point out that you know there are legitimate reasons for landlords to use

00:36section 21 evictions so this isn't porch light going against section 21s but we are going against

00:45the misuse of section 21 evictions which we do see. We're in a housing crisis at the moment

00:53one of the issues around this is that if someone gets evicted from their home the cost of rent

00:59is so high that it's really difficult for them to move somewhere else and obviously there's a

01:03there's a lot of competition for places as well and I'm speaking now more in the long term but

01:12the only way we're going to get around this is for the government to build more social housing

01:16and I know it's spoken about building more housing and that's great and

01:21we just need them to commit to that to stay on that

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