Reform UK has announced that, if it forms a government, social housing tenants would face eviction for failing to keep their gardens tidy and properties well decorated. Party chair Lee Anderson said this would restore standards he associates with older council housing practice, while framing it as fair given that social rents are subsidised by taxpayers. The policy sits within a broader Reform housing platform that would also remove foreign nationals from existing social homes and give priority for new housing to young, British-born married couples with children.

Deputy leader Richard Tice said the party would legislate to prioritise British-born working couples with children for newly built social housing, with people born abroad to British parents counted as British-born but long-term British citizens born abroad to foreign parents excluded. Tice, who is divorced and remarrying this year, said the policy was deliberately intended to promote marriage. Reform's wider plan to boost social housebuilding relies on letting housing associations borrow more against the rising accounting value of their homes, but Andy Hulme, chief executive of housing association Hyde, warned this could push financially stretched associations into breaching banking agreements and risking default.