Campaigning charity Shelter has made an outspoken attack on the government’s alleged failure to protect tenants – despite the Rentera Rights Bill. Ok
The charity has accused the government of “broken promises” and claims nearly 1,000 households could be “marched out of their homes by bailiffs” every month while the government “fails to implement the ban on Section 21.”
Last week government data revealed that 11,400 households in England were removed from their homes by bailiffs as a result of a Section 21 no-fault eviction between July 2024 and June 2025, an 8% rise on the previous year.
Shelter seizes upon this to attack Labour.
It says: “Before it came to power, the government promised to ‘immediately abolish no-fault evictions’ as a core component of its manifesto.
“But more than a year on, tenants are still waiting for the Renters’ Rights Bill to become law and the certainty of security in their homes is still out of reach.
“The government has the power to stop this.”
Figures published by the Ministry of Justice also show that more than 30,000 Section 21 eviction notices were issued by private landlords in England during the same period.
Shelter claims this type of eviction is one of the leading causes of homelessness because it gives landlords the power to evict tenants with two months’ notice, without any reason given.
Shelter says its analysis of these figures found that, for every month the government delays a ban on S21 evictions, 950 households could be removed from their homes by bailiffs.
Shelter is calling on the government to pass the Bill as quickly as possible and name an implementation date, “to finally give renters the iron-clad protections from eviction they have long been waiting for.”
Mairi MacRae, Director of Campaigns and Policy at Shelter, says: “It is unconscionable that more than a year after the government came to power, thousands of renters continue to be marched out of their homes by bailiffs because of an unfair policy that the government said would be scrapped immediately.
“For far too long, tenants’ lives have been thrown into turmoil by the rank injustice of no fault evictions. At the whim of private landlords, thousands of tenants are being left with just two months to find a new home, plunging them into a ruthless rental market and leaving many exposed to the riptide of homelessness.
“The Renters’ Rights Bill will overhaul a broken system and usher in a long-overdue era of stability and security for tenants. To curb record homelessness and ensure renters can live free from the threat of no-fault eviction, the government must deliver on this commitment, pass the Bill, and name an implementation date when Section 21 will finally be scrapped.”
This article is taken from Landlord Today