Housing charity Shelter has analysed rates of possession claims in England for snapshot of struggling households
One in every 111 households in England is in danger of eviction, according to research by housing charity Shelter.
The risk of eviction is much higher in cities and other urban areas, particularly London – the 12 local authorities with the highest rates of eviction risk are all in London, partly because of high housing costs. The charity has analysed rates of possession claims issued by private and social landlords and by mortgage lenders for homes in every local authority in England.
Though not all possession claims lead to an eviction, they indicate that a household is struggling with rent or mortgage payments and are already enmeshed in a legal process which puts their homes seriously at risk. About a third of the 93,500 mortgage possession claims lodged in the UK in 2009 turned into repossessions the following year.
Top of the list with a rate of 25.8 mortgage and landlord possession claims per 1,000 homes is Barking and Dagenham, followed by Olympic borough Newham (24 claims), Haringey (22.9 claims) and Brent (22.4 claims). Outside London, the highest rate of claims is in...Read more here--: Thousands of households 'in danger of eviction' | Money | guardian.co.uk