Social Landlord Posession and Evictions, 2010-11

This Statistical Release presents information on possession orders and eviction warrants obtained against tenants of social landlords (local authorities and registered social landlords – RSLs) in Wales during 2010-11. The release also presents information about other legal action that social landlords have taken against anti-social behaviour by their tenants.

This latest release updates the statistics previously released on 29 September 2010.

The key points from the latest release are:

• Since 2005-06 the number of possession orders and eviction warrants for all social landlords, have continued to fall, falling to 3,416 and 2,170 respectively during 2010-11.
• Over a third of eviction warrants each year result in tenants leaving their homes, the majority of which are single working-age adults.
• Over the last year the number of possession orders obtained per tenant by RSLs fell slightly and was just below the local authorities’ level. The number of eviction warrants per tenant has decreased for both RSLs and local authorities with the proportion for RSLs remaining lower (Chart 1).
• The number of anti-social behaviour orders has decreased by more than three quarters over the last year from 33 to 8 while the level of injunctions has continued to increase rising from 121 to 134 and well above the 2005-06 peak of 125.

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 5055
E-mail: stats.housing@wales.gsi.gov.uk

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