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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Robert Booth and Jem Bartholomew

No-fault evictions: 200,000 renters in England served notices in three years

Housing charity Shelter estimates 200 renters in England are served no-fault eviction notices a day.
Housing charity Shelter estimates 200 renters in England are served no-fault eviction notices every day. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

More than 200,000 private renters in England have been served eviction notices without doing anything wrong in the three years since the government first promised to ban the practice, housing campaigners have claimed.

Every seven minutes, a tenant has been landed with a no-fault eviction notice since Theresa May’s Conservative government first committed to scrap them in April 2019, according to research by Shelter, the housing charity.

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