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LibLink: Sarah Teather: Let’s stop the scourge of revenge eviction

By NewsHound | Tue 28th October 2014 - 5:30 pm

Sarah Teather has been writing for the Guardian about the problems created by so-called revenge eviction and how her Private Members’ Bill will tackle it. First she gave an example of what had happened to her constituent:

Last month, a constituent came to my office in Brent for help after his landlord served him with an eviction notice. His property suffered from severe cold and a cockroach infestation, and following an environmental health inspection the council served notice on the landlord to fix the property. The landlord decided to evict my constituent and re-let the flat instead.

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Posted in LibLink | Also tagged housing, revenge evictions, sarah teather and the guardian | 4 Comments

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