Submitted on Saturday 13th August 2011
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Families of Rioters Should not be Evicted from Social Housing
To make rioters homeless is a vicious and vindictive knee jerk reaction that will only serve to inflict hardship and destitution on one of the poorest sections of our society. This will also create an additional burden for local government which has a duty to accommodate the homeless.
Even worse, would be to force their families, who bear no legal responsibility for the rioter's actions, into homelessness. To do this is to unfairly punish and stigmatise the innocent.
It should not be a goal of any local or national government to deliberately create poverty, homelessness, exclusion and destitution or to undermine and disregard the human rights of its citizens/residents.
The Government must ban any local authority or social housing provider from evicting rioters and/or their families.
There are already sufficient sanctions in place through the criminal justice system to deal effectively with those who are convicted of committing criminal offences.
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