The notices have been given out for rent arrears or bad behaviour, and Housing president Deputy Terry Le Main has warned tenants that the evictions could continue.He wants to sell an estimated £40 million of property belonging to Housing to raise funds for properties to move problem tenants to.
Deputy Le Main said that by getting rid of housing stock that is unsuitable for social rented housing, they could buy properties away from residential areas to house bad tenants.’We are clamping down,’ said the Deputy.
‘Any parents whose children are consistently misbehaving or causing annoyance are being instructed to come and see me and we are going to either move them somewhere else or evict them.
It is totally unfair to 98 per cent of our tenants who are good, decent people to have to put up with this.’The Housing Committee are not going to put up with people who are unwilling to comply with their tenancy agreements.’He added that some of the tenants with arrears were high earners, with salaries up to £40,000.When States tenants are evicted, they have to go to the private sector for accommodation which is generally more expensive.
They can reapply for public sector housing, but will only get it if they can prove themselves as good tenants.Deputy Le Main’s plan to sell off housing stock has come to the States before but was rejected.
When committees dispose of assets, the proceeds go to the States Treasury but the Housing president wants to keep the money for his own committee, which has a negative cash allowance this year.’We have got numerous properties around the Island that are unsuitable for social rented housing and some are sitting on prime sites.
We would like to sell some of those unsuitable properties and recover the money and go out and buy some unidentified properties in the community,’ he said.’We would buy them away from residential areas so they would be away from immediate neighbours.
We would not want to impose these kinds of people on immediate neighbours.’
