Posted on Wed 31 Aug 2011

This page brings together articles, blogs and columns regarding calls to cut housing benefit (HB) for those involved in the recent riots in London, Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester.  We also welcome your thoughts on the proposals in our Better Housing discussion list.

• e-petitions: Convicted London rioters should loose (sic) all benefits

• Statement from Lara Oyedele, Odu-Dua Housing Association

Media coverage

• Council threatens looters with eviction, Inside Housing, 9 August 2011
• Eviction threat for rioting council tenants, 24-dash, 9 August 2011
• Westminster vows to evict social tenants involved in riots, Guardian, 10 August 2011
• Voters: “Strip rioters of benefits!” Politicians: “Sure. See you at the 2031 riots?”, MTPT, 10 August 2011
• UK riots: Should rioters lose their entitlement to benefits?, Guardian, 11 August 2011
• Might evictions from social housing be broadened?, The Spectator, 11 August 2011
• Rioters threatened with eviction, Harry's Place (weblog), 11 August 2011
• ALMO works with police to evict rioters, Inside Housing 11 August 2011
• Pickles plans increased eviction powers, Inside Housing, 11 August 2011
• Riots prompt changes to fast track eviction plans, Inside Housing, 12 August 2011
• Wandsworth seeks eviction over riots, Inside Housing, 12 August 2011
• MPs to consider removing benefits from rioters, Inside Housing, 12 August 2011
• After the riots – collective punishment?, Social Resistance, 12 August 2011
• First rioter given eviction notice, Wandsworth Council, 12 August 2011
• Caution over social housing evictions following riots, 24-dash, 12 August 2011
• Riots: Pickles plans to make evicted tenants 'wilfully homeless', 24-dash, 12 August 2011
• 'Uphill battle' for councils that want to evict rioters, Community Care, 12 August 2011
• Eviction is not the way to restore fragile families, Guardian Letters, 14 August 2011
• Ministers look to cut benefits from rioters, Inside Housing, 15 August 2011
• Riots: Courts warning over tenant evictions, 24-dash, 15 August 2011
• UK Riots: Social housing eviction would lead to displacement and more exclusion, e-Gov Monitor, 15 August 2011
• Stereotyping tenants 'equally as shocking' as the riots, 24-dash, 16 August 2011
• Charitable housing associations resist evicting people involved in last week's riots, Civil Society, 16 August 2011
• Evicting rioters' families from their homes? There's a horrible logic to it, Socialguardian 16 August 2011
• ‘Locality’ clause cut from eviction proposals, Inside Housing, 16 August 2011
• Broken bandwagon, Inside Housing, 17 August 2011
• Clegg backs moves to cut benefits for rioters, Inside Housing, 17 August 2011
• Fast track to failure, Inside Housing, 17 August 2011
• Platform: Council wrong to evict tenants involved in riots, Greenwich.co.uk, 18 August 2011
• Wandsworth told to back down on riot evictions, Inside Housing, 18 August 2011
• Landlords: ‘We will kick convicted rioters out ’, Inside Housing, 19 August 2011
• Jake Berry MP: Booting out looters, muggers and arsonists is the social contract in action 24-dash, 23 August 2011
• Nearly 220,000 sign petition calling on DWP to remove welfare benefits from convicted rioters, 24-dash, 24 August 2011
• Dozens of Southwark council tenants face eviction over riots, 24-dash, 24 August 2011
• Wandsworth Council accused of 'fascism' over tenant riot eviction, 24-dash, 7 September 2011
• Private landlords issue warning over social housing riot evictions, 24-dash, 16 September 2011