Not due to unpaid rent, not due to the landlord wanting to sell (which are exceptions that can easily be written into law), but landlords just wanting to evict a tenant because they dislike them or are angry about being made to do essential repairs (link: tenants are 2.5x more likely to evicted after requesting repairs and 25% of tenants don't ask for repairs out of fear of revenge eviction). In the UK these evictions happened 80,000 times in 5 years from 2019-2024 (16000 times per year) and it's considered one of the factors causing homelessness here.
Of course insecure housing (excluding homelessness) has knock-on externalities, such as physical and mental health effects, along with effects on employment, social relationships and general opportunity (because moving house costs a lot of money and time, meaning less money and time for other ventures). Here in the UK, state mental health services sometimes won't even deal with people facing eviction and will tell them to come back when their housing situation is no longer in crisis.
I was wondering, because the top comment here was calling banning no-fault evictions "full succ" and the next one is lamenting the idea of paying tenants having secure housing: https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/13jtofu/no_fault_evictions_to_be_banned_in_new_prs_reform/
I found it surprising, since I believe most of the USA already has a ban on no-fault evictions? For example, the Republican state of Texas doesn't seem to allow no-faults and only allows evictions for specific reasons: https://www.payrent.com/articles/texas-eviction-laws-2023/ – "Grounds for Eviction: Texas law recognizes several reasons for eviction, including non-payment of rent, lease violations, property damage, and illegal activities on the premises."
So would you like to see US states like Texas make no-fault evictions legal too? Or if not, are the replies to that thread just evidence that the average r/neoliberal user (as in other subs) comment without knowing what they're talking about and got paranoid about something that they didn't realise is already the norm in the US and hasn't yet caused a catastrophe over there?
Posted by gintokireddit
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Does the UK not have lease contracts?
Randomly evicting tenants would be breach of contract for every residential lease I’ve ever seen
If landlords want more flexibility re lease termination they should just contract for it
I’d rather contract law handle this by a landlord just not renewing the lease for someone they don’t like. As long as leases aren’t forcibly renewed by the tenant’s wishes (unless written in), there’s no issue.