Preventing homelessness by making eviction a last resort

Over the past two years Shelter has published a series of reports showing that eviction action is still a very common way for social landlords to deal with rent arrears. We showed that social landlords are evicting proportionately more tenants than mortgage lenders are repossessing homeowners. We have argued that eviction is a blunt and often ineffective tool for dealing with debt. This point has been borne out by the experience of some progressive landlords