Insurance firms are secretly urging landlords to evict lower-income tenants “as a precaution”, an openDemocracy investigation has discovered.
Our findings have sparked alarm among housing campaigners, who called the practice discriminatory and dangerous.
One email we saw from a “rent guarantee” provider urged a landlord to issue a ‘no fault’ eviction notice – a practice the government has long vowed to ban – because a tenant in a south London flat did not have three years’ worth of UK credit history after recently moving to the UK.
