fake news 100 tenants a day lose homes

Housing “Fake news” deliberately masks high SOCIAL housing evictions Are you old enough to remember when digital was called Information Technology or IT? Are you, like me, older still and remember when IT was called data processing? If so you will know the maxim that still holds good today that it is only when data is processed does it become genuine meaningful information.
Housing fake news is mostly fake analysis or for want of a more tactful phrase piss poor analysis and nowhere more so than in the lazy analysis the usual suspects of the London-centric commentariat give to rented housing in the UK. A classic example is the article I read today entitled “100 tenants a day lose homes as rising rents and benefit freeze hits.” It comes from the Guardian and uses other usual suspects of the Cambridge Centre for Housing Research (CCHR), Shelter and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) – the proverbial commentariat – and as its title suggests and its article reads the rising evictions are all the fault of the nasty private landlord being allowed to use no-fault evictions. wrote:

Staggeringly high social (sic) landlord evictions … shhh! Council and housing associations are evicting far too many social tenants and making them homeless and this is THE main issue not tenants who are evicted by private landlords!
That opening statement that goes against all current and past thinking yet the facts bear it out; facts that social landlords and the housing commentariat refuse to even recognise despite the facts staring them in the face. Take the following two facts:
• UK has 53% private properties and 47% socially rented ones. • UK evictions show 54% private to 46% social housing evictions. wrote: