'Rioters should lose their housing benefit': Media coverage
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.
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
- Private landlords issue warning over social housing riot evictions, 24-dash, 16 September 2011