Austerity, Covid and soaring prices have created a 'perfect storm' for tenants, housing chiefs say.
A meeting of the council's housing scrutiny committee was told council tenants in the city owe nearly £1.8m in rent
The situation has been described as a "perfect storm", with over 3,000 tenants having a combined debt of nearly £1.8m in October. "Generally, when a case gets to eviction, it means that we have tried absolutely everything time and time again," Mr Southall said. "Judges are very reluctant - in the middle of a cost of living crisis and on the back of the last 10 or 12 years - to evict people, particularly where they have vulnerabilities," Mr Southall said.
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