[quote girl71]"@walksen This is a risk the landlord should have educated themselves about before entering the business of renting out their house".
Or perhaps we should educate renter's that they need to leave a house that is not theirs when notice is served. Perhaps we should be encouraging and educating renters to consider how they will house themselves and their families based on their incomes, rather than push back onto Landlords. Perhaps we should educate people that landlords are not charities. Rather than expecting landlords them to let live in their properties for peanuts /free/ wait to be evicted. Perhaps we should remind people that landlords have mortgages, and that housing has to be paid for and paying rent is not optional. Perhaps we should educate people that when you have been served notice to leave, you should leave. It is NOT your house, you need to leave. How you house yourself and your family is your issue not the landlord's . [/quote]
People like you just don't listen.
The way people house themselves on low income, if they find themselves in the unfortunate circumstances of being evicted and having nowhere else to go, is through the council. They can only do that by following the council's rules which is to stay where they are until escorted out by bailiffs.
Many people on low incomes need social housing it's as simple as that, if their earnings will realistically never be enough for private rental and they don't have a guarantor. People can't always help their earning potential, there will always be some on very low wages with no chance of that improving and needing social housing. But there isn't enough social housing to go round.
In many areas, unless you inherit a tenancy (which I don't agree with, FWIW) you're realistically only going to be able to get social housing if you're disabled, a single parent and on benefits, or homeless. Those who can't find private rent and facing eviction are doing the ONLY thing they can do.
Which in the long term is also going to be the best thing for them (and any future landlords they'd potentially end up overstaying their welcome with): Following the homelessness procedure and getting rehoused somewhere by the council, however awful it may be. Because ultimately, that's how they end up with a permanent tenancy which they can actually afford. And where they have some hope of repairs being done (since social landlords can't choose to decline to renew the tenancy instead of carrying out repairs).
It's not a question of "educate tenants". To do what? Make themselves rough sleepers and not entitled to council assistance? Nobody in their right mind is going to choose that when there's another option available. This is the procedure. The fact you don't like it is irrelevant.