A staggering betrayal of Crawley’s renters

With the Conservatives first repeatedly delaying, weakening and now dropping the legislation which would have delivered on their 2019 manifesto pledge to ban no-fault evictions, Crawley’s 8,312 renters have now been left entirely without the protection they were promised.

It’s now over five years since the Tories promised to scrap Section 21 no-fault evictions. Yet thousands of renters across Crawley are still without protection, still vulnerable to eviction at any moment.

The latest figures reveal there are now 218 local families who have faced proceedings to eject them from their home in the years since the Tories promised to ban the practice in April 2019, part of an ever-growing number across the country now approaching 90,000 households.

‘No-fault evictions’, also known as Section 21 notices, allow landlords to order tenants to leave with a minimum of two months’ warning – without having to prove that the tenant is at fault.

The Conservatives seem too weak to stand up to the vested interests blocking reform, leaving local renters with the threat of having their lives thrown upside down through no-fault evictions.

In contrast, a Labour Government will deliver a Renters’ Charter to provide renters with the certainty and protection they need regarding their housing.