ABSTRACT
This chapter begins by detailing the key ways that contemporary state-led gentrification has evolved, contributing to 'state-led eviction'. It defines state-led eviction as the cumulative impact of the government cuts in social support for housing and the promotion of housing market activities, which not only increase eviction risk amongst low-income households but, through various legal repossession frameworks, actively endorse it. The chapter looks at the political economic landscape of evictions within the United Kingdom context in relation to austerity. It outlines how austerity-driven welfare reforms have led to a hike in rent rates and affordability which has culminated in an unprecedented rise in rent arrears and 'eviction hotspots' confounding revanchism in the housing sector which arguably constitutes state-led evictions. In the quest for profit under financial capitalism, the basic security of the home is under its greatest threat, and contemporary state policy and practice support rather than prevent this in new ways, indicating a grave new urban frontier.
