Holiday rental giant Airbnb has been urged to stop advertising properties that have been made available to tourists as a result of landlords removing previous tenants through controversial ‘no fault’ evictions – over concerns the growing practice is contributing to the “collapse” of affordable housing.
Former Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron said he had written to the company to urge them to end the use of such properties after being made aware of “hundreds” of instances of long-term private tenants being turfed out so the properties can be let at a higher rate to holidaymakers.
‘No-fault’ evictions – formally known as Section 21 notices and meaning tenants have to leave a property with two months’ notice – have long been controversial and the 2019 Conservative manifesto promised to abolish them. But a Government white paper on rental reform has been delayed until later this year, meaning the practice is currently entirely legal.
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