Housing charity Shelter said hundreds of thousands have fallen into rent arrears of eight weeks or more eviction ban ends, a charity has warned.
The ban was introduced by ministers in March in a bid to protect renters who could not pay their bills after losing jobs or being put on the furlough scheme. But last week, housing ministerThe housing charity has warned that unless the government urgently acts to protect renters struggling to pay rent amid the pandemic, judges will be powerless to stop them from losing their homes once the ban lifts. Chief executive Polly Neate insisted that the housing minister can ‘still avert this disaster’.
The mother said she is trying her best to cut outgoings and has been buying cheaper food but said the situation is ‘incredibly stressful’. ‘I talk about it with my older children, and we try and work out where we can get the money from to top up the rent… I don’t want it to come to an eviction through the courts. I don’t want my children to go through that.’