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Right now, the government's patting itself on the back for successfully cracking down on abusive kaying or A tenants. It's seen sixty three tendancies terminated in the past ten months. That's up from eleven the year before. Action over complaints is happening five times faster. The number of former warnings being issued has gone up six hundred percent. So I'm joined now by the former CEO of the Monte Cecilia Housing Trust, Bernie Smith Community Bernie.
Good Morning, Angry so.
Caig Aura has one hundred and ninety thousand clients and in the past ten months there have only been sixty three terminations. The year before eleven and the year before that just two. So is this an issue that has been over egged? Oh?
I don't think so. It's gone from bad duarius in the sense of a previous government believing that no one should be exited from their home behavior, no matter the damage, and this government is endeavoring to put it right. So that's why the stats are looking so high.
Do we assume that state housing tends need to be complained about.
No, we don't, And sadly, we've got a little bit of a nimbiism occurring in some communities where people feel that they should be complained about when they're jolly good tenants.
So the numbers now are bigger than they've ever been, and it is a six hundred percent increase in formal warnings. Does that indicate that they're being given out for lesser issues than we did in the past.
I don't think so. I think, sadly, Andrew, for some tenants they don't understand or know what good behavior is because of how they've been raised in their families, and so the wrap around service actually assists tenants to know what good behavior is and hopefully this will begin to create generational.
Change all right now, The fear that is often promoted by people who don't like it when the government comes down tough on canga or a tenants is that they don't know where they're going to go. They fear that these tenants being thrown out will end out homeless, maybe sleeping rough. Is there a link between eviction from canger or a house and homelessness?
Oh, this certainly is a link. I think there's some tenants, no matter how much support you put in, no matter how long the journey is that you walk with them to try and support them to correct things. They just have a chip on their shoulder and there's no choice but to act. The sad part for me is that children are involved and it's often the children's folded all.
Well, Bertie, thank you so much for getting up for us this morning, on this holiday. And this is Bertie Smith, the former CEO of the Monty Cecilia Housing Trust.
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