arrears. they did not. they had a choice to and then some of those rules around possession to treat rent arrears built through covid differently and to help keep people through in their homes and they chose not to do that. looking forward, it looks like they are choosing to end their £20 a week uplift to universal credit, which will only make the situation worse for people in arrears now, will make it harder to pay them down for people who are on a financial knife edge this might be the thing that pulls them under. in edge this might be the thing that pulls them under. edge this might be the thing that pulls them under. in the absence of the sort of help pulls them under. in the absence of the sort of help you pulls them under. in the absence of the sort of help you have pulls them under. in the absence of the sort of help you have described | the sort of help you have described there for tenants who are struggling with rent arrears, is the number of addiction is likely to incr
to live, but also having that mark against your name in terms of an eviction, which might make it even harder to find another home to live in and another landlord to let to you. so this is why we are calling on government to take a much more proactive action. obviously they put in place an eviction ban, which was really welcome that help people steady while it was in place, but without something that came after that to help research renters finances, you know, this is a situation which is potentially long reaching. and housing those people who find themselves addicted is costly, temporary accommodation is costly. it would make much more sense to target support at that point. but it is not too late. government could still put in place grants support to help people pay down the rent arrears, they could reverse the decision to cut the 20 pad uplift to universal credit, and that would go a long way to keep more people in their homes. [30 that would go a long way to keep more people in the
my work was all based around contact with people, in and out of people s houses daily. as he prepared for his son s birth, the country went into lockdown and his income plummeted. michael fell into rent arrears and has now been served with an eviction notice. it s kind of like weighing up, when can i meet my rent, put food on the table, you know, paying the bills, gas and electricity? and bit by bit the moneyjust increased and decreased to the point where i did just end up in arrears. there was no way around it. since the ban on evictions was lifted, landlords have been rushing to county courts seeking permission for bailiffs to evict their tenants. of the 270 possession orders analysed by the bureau of investigativejournalism, one third of them, 88 cases, explicitly cited covid as the reason why rent arrears had arisen. what strikes you about sitting in the hearings is exactly
tenants are being evicted because of rent arrears built up over the pandemic, despite a government commitment that covid wouldn t leave anyone without a home. one third of eviction hearings monitored in england and wales over the summer stated covid as the reason rent hadn t been paid. our social affairs correspondent michael buchanan has the details. michael calder is a musician and, pre pandemic, a guitar teacher. my work was all based around contact with people, in and out of people s houses daily. as he prepared for his son s birth, the country went into lockdown and his income plummeted. michael fell into rent arrears and has now been served with an eviction notice. it was kind of like weighing up, you know, when can i meet my rent, putting food on the table,
tenants are being evicted because of rent arrears built up over the pandemic despite the government saying that covid wouldn t leave anyone without a home. one third of eviction hearings monitored in england and wales over the summer stated covid as the reason that rent hadn t been paid. 0ur social affairs correspondent, michael buchanan, has been speaking to those affected. you ve got lots of favourites! in liverpool, joanne, marshall and little roman have two weeks to leave their home. oh, thank you. all our incomejust kept going down and down and down, and then we ended up with spiralling debt, to be fair. marshall s newjob as a chef fell through due to the lockdown. he didn t qualify for furlough with his previous employer, and he couldn t find any work for a year. why is it not working? their bills racked up, they owe their landlord £11,000, and have been served with an eviction notice. it s not how it was supposed to be, do you know what i mean? and it makes me feel a bit sick