Crackdown on bad tenants misses point, claims Edie

Published on Monday 13 February 2012 12:01

NEW moves by the Scottish Government to crack down on antisocial tenants have come under fire for failing to tackle the root causes of the problem.

City housing convener Paul Edie branded the proposals, which include making it easier to evict tenants for antisocial behaviour, “eye-catching, populist initiatives” which would be difficult to implement.

He said: “Just evicting people doesn’t solve the problem. All you’re doing is shifting it somewhere else and we would have a responsibility to rehouse these tenants.

“We know from painful experience what you have to do is work with people who are committing antisocial behaviour and get them to reform.”

The government wants to change the law so councils and housing associations could take previous antisocial behaviour into account when allocating homes. Antisocial tenants could lose their tenancy rights and the eviction process would be simplified.

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Blaze

Monday, February 13, 2012 at 12:15 PM

Better eye catching populist proposals than an eye watering apologist approach.

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