Your landlord can only evict you for legal reasons and has to issue you with warnings and a court order before you can be evicted.

The main reasons for eviction are:

• You don't pay your rent.
  
  
• You are involved in anti-social behaviour, like being noisy and getting into arguments.
  
  
• Your Short Secure Tenancy has ended.

Talking to a worker about the situation could make the difference between you keeping or losing your home.

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Rent Arrears - you can pay off your arrears slowly which stops you being classed as a non-paying tenant. Speak to your landlord, your local Citizens' Advice Bureau or Debtline on 0808 808 4000.

Anti-social Behaviour - if you are behaving in an anti-social way but really don't want to lose your place you need to tackle the problem by talking to a worker or a housing officer. If you feel it's beyond your control then try and speak to someone in the Social Work or Housing Department about what support they can offer.

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If you are threatened with eviction contact:

Shelter's free housing advice helpline
0808 800 4444
(they can put you in touch with your nearest Housing Aid Centre)

Legal Services Agency
0141 353 3354
(Tues, Wed, Thurs 11am-1pm)

A legal advice worker at your local Citizens' Advice Bureau

• Your tenancy agreement (if you have one) and any letters you have had from your landlord about eviction. The date of these letters could be important.
  
  
• If you have rent arrears try to work out how many weeks you are behind so that you can tell the worker how big the problem is.

Your tenancy agreement

Being homeless

If your landlord is trying to evict you they may try to make you leave by harassing you. This is illegal. The only way you can be evicted is if your landlord has got a court order against you.

Harassment means that you are not being allowed peaceful enjoyment of your home and can include your landlord:

• Coming round without warning.
  
  
• Refusing to do repairs.
  
  
• Threatening you in any way.

If a landlord has made you leave your place without a court order, they have committed a criminal offence and you can try to sue.

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