Where do people with bad credit, poor references and ASBOs live?

[KvotheTheBloodless]

I was watching a programme on nightmare tenants, and it made me wonder - when the landlord is eventually able to evict them and get their (trashed!) property back, where do these people go? It's not like another landlord is going to willingly let to them, and social housing is almost impossible to get.

Add to that, what if they're already being evicted from a council property due to antisocial behaviour, what happens then? Does the council keep housing them till they get themselves evicted again and again (if they have kids)?

Jaywick

There is always an agency in every town that takes on bad debt/bankrupt folk. They are human after all, and do need a roof over their head. Some of them will also get housing benefit paid directly to them, to ensure payment.

If there are children involved, they usually get rehoused in different social housing. Shifted round areas endlessly making the neighbours' lives hell for a year here, a year there. I lived next door to a temporary accomodation property with 4 bedrooms once that had a rolling supply of large antisocial families who had been evicted from other properties. They were housed there for a few months then signed a behaviour contract then rehoused elsewhere.

If no kids it probably tough shit, here's a cardboard box, or it should be at least.
With kids they will probably be shoved onto another sink estate and start the cycle again. Some people don't really want to change. They are happy as they are, courtesy of the jolly old British tax payer

In the emergency house next door to me, it would seem.

i don’t think rent arrears end up on your credit score until a landlord takes you to court. Same for bad behaviour. There is no bad tenant list that allows landlords to see if you are any good before they hand over the keys.
I think the whole system needs much stricter regulation on both sides. There needs to be actual consequences for both shitty landlords and shitty tenants.
I speak as a landlord who’s had to replace the floorboards as the tenant allowed her kids to piss on the carpet for months. She had her kids taken off her, but there is no record that she did 15k damage to my property. I could have sued her at my expense but to what end? She had no money.
i sold my house and she now presumably doesn’t pay rent in somebody else’s property.

Single adults are likely to end up on the street. Families will often be placed in temporary accommodation which could be a bedsit in an hmo.

Using other peoples names.

We rent out DH house. A potential tenant forgot his story as he accidentally let slip about his pregnant girlfriend. Great, lovely 3 bedroom family home, good schools nearby... When it came to the application/checks he said that his girlfriend wouldn’t be living with him so didn’t need to do referencing.

I don’t know how it could be managed but there should be a review site to weed out bad tenants/landlords.

@TheSquirrelfromTheWirral is bang on.

There's unlikely to be a reference on their credit score for unpaid rent or damage to the property. They move on to the next landlord and do the same there. Most likely a landlord who isn't very diligent in reference checking . Rack up the rent arrears, damage the house, bide your time until they evict you (which takes months and months), and the move on to the next one.

Single people will end up street homeless. In some areas there are charities working with the homeless who liaise with landlords willing to take them as tenants. These landlords will receive the rent direct from housing benefit and do nothing to upgrade or maintain the flats to modern standards. Some have electrics, kitchens and bathrooms that have not been upgraded since the 1960s and carpets and decorating not much newer than that.

What @Marshfritillary says. If they have dependents under 16 they generally get shifted around various social housing, charity housing and temp accommodation every few months. They move in, they make life hell for the neighbours go through the eviction process and then start again. As they have dependents they cannot be street homeless so are pretty immune to having to sort their behaviour out.

Mad that they get to keep their DC , surely they'd be better off with Foster carers and stability.

Thanks all who replied with info. It must be bloody awful to live next door to some of these folk 😕