A knife-wielding tenant was evicted for threatening to kill a member of staff in an emergency housing placement funded by Brighton and Hove City Council.
Another tenant was thrown out after injecting drugs in a communal bathroom and leaving blood all over the walls and sink.
The tenant had brought a drug dealer into the building who was weighing and bagging up drugs in the communal kitchen.
The cases were set out in an official report on the number of evictions from emergency housing.
The report said that other evictions followed drug dealing, fights with fellow residents, stealing from other residents’ rooms, anti-social behaviour and an assault on a member of security staff.
It also said: “A significant proportion of single people in emergency accommodation have complex support needs and are waiting for supported accommodation.”
The seven-page annual report on “evictions from temporary accommodation” said that the council “made 1,040 placements” in the year to the end of March, with some people housed more than once.
The number of evictions went up to 39 from 33 the year before, with many of those tenants struggling to manage in housing which was better suited to those with “general needs”.
The evicted tenants included a disproportionate number who had been assessed as needing “supported accommodation” but, the report said, there were not enough places to house them all.
It said: “This reflects the difficulties people have trying to manage in general needs accommodation while waiting for a supported despite the intervention of welfare officers.
“Of those 14 waiting for supported accommodation, nine were subsequently moved into supported accommodation after their eviction.
“The high demand for supported accommodation means that people can be waiting for a considerable amount of time for a suitable vacancy.
“This can mean that while people may be linked in with support services, they do not cope well in emergency accommodation.”
The report said: “There was only one person evicted for service charge arrears alone (and) 22 of the 39 (56.41 per cent) were re-accommodated.”
The report also said that 412 short-term and emergency rooms were funded by the council and managed by landlords under contract with capacity for a further 60 “spot purchase” rooms.
Last time I looked cutting drugs for dealing, assault and threatening behaviour etc etc etc were criminal offences….