Tory u-turn over eviction ban – but is it really the reprieve renters needed?
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Faced with a widespread campaign, supported by the media, the Tories have done what they always do – and u-turned on the plan to restore tenant evictions.
Landlords would have been able to evict tenants from August 24 – for the first time since the Covid-19 lockdown was imposed in March.
But now the Tories have extended the ban… for just one month.
Why so short a period? And what’s going on with all the conditions and caveats they’ve applied?
Apparently, after the ban ends, landlords won’t be able to evict anybody for a further six months – until March 2021 – because they’ll only be able to issue notice of evictions from the new date the ban ends (September 20).
So when is the ban actually ending? September 2020 or March 2021?
And Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has said possession cases brought by landlords will be heard again “when the courts reopen” – after the summer vacation? After lockdown restrictions are lifted? Where’s the clarity.
It is fair enough that what Jenrick calls “the most egregious cases, for example those involving anti-social behaviour or domestic abuse perpetrators” be handled as soon as possible.
But I wonder exactly what will be done for renters who are falling behind on their payments during the four week delay that couldn’t be done during the previous six months.
People need protection from losing their homes; they are more vulnerable to it now than at any time since This Writer was born.
But most of that vulnerability has been created by Conservative politics.
So what are the Tories going to do? And why haven’t they done it already?
Source: Eviction ban extended for another month in last-minute government u-turn – Mirror Online
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