HOUSING activists are launching a national campaign today to stop private landlords being able to evict tenants without having to give a reason.

So-called “no fault” evictions, which allow landlords to put tenants on the street with just two months notice, are the number one cause of homelessness.

Housing charity Shelter revealed last year that eviction from a private tenancy accounted for 78 per cent of the rise in homelessness since 2011, with 18,750 households becoming homeless after an eviction from a privately rented home in 2016 alone.