https:\/\/nearlylegal.co.uk\/2020\/03\/emergency-legislation-on-possession-claims\/<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\nThe\nMHCLG has dangerously misunderstood the scale of the crisis facing tenants and\nother renters, both immediately and in the future. We all face financial\ninsecurity as well as the health crisis over the coming months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\ngovernment\u2019s overwhelming priority should be to keep people safe and keep\npeople secure during the period of the crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\npolicy fails to get to grips with the very simple fact that ordinary people\nneed the security of their homes in order to keep safe in a pandemic. \nFurthermore, the public good lies in people remaining secure in their homes and\nnot being forced to seek new accommodation with all the social contact that\nimplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A\nhousehold receiving a notice of possession proceedings would have to start to\nlook for new accommodation immediately, regardless of the fact that the notice\ngives three months before court proceedings will commence. It is\nstaggering that the government does not recognise that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In\naddition, there is nothing that protects renters in more insecure forms of\nletting arrangements such as lodgers and many people in HMOs. Again, if those\npeople have to leave their homes because of the inaction of the government then\nthey are extremely unlikely to be able to follow the current guidance on social\ndistancing as they find somewhere else to live. Many will not find\nanywhere to live and will add to the shameful increase in street homelessness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\ngovernment needs to come to its senses and bring forward measures that properly\nprotects all renters and in so doing protects the whole public. We call\nfor:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
*\nA moratorium on all and any steps to evict tenants and licensees for a period\nof three months with an option to extend as necessary, including service of\nnotices, commencement of possession proceedings, all orders for possession of\nany kind and all and any steps to execute any possession order<\/p>\n\n\n\n
*\nMeasures to prevent rent and licence fees accumulating and measures to support\nlandlords to ensure that properties remain viable for letting<\/p>\n\n\n\n
*\nEnhanced powers against landlords who carry out or attempt to carry out\nunlawful evictions including further criminal sanctions<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In other words the government must shake itself out of its long held complacency about the rented sector and must now adequately respond to the \u201cextraordinary times\u201d referred to by the Minister just five days ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
On 18 March 2020 under a press release headline \u201cComplete ban on eviction and additional protection for renters\u201d Housing Minister Robert Jenrick said: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe government is clear \u2013 no renter who has lost income due to coronavirus will be forced out of their home, nor will any landlord face unmanageable debts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThese are extraordinary times, and renters\nand landlords alike are of course worried about paying their rent and mortgage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhich is why we are urgently introducing\nemergency legislation to protect tenants in social and private accommodation\nfrom an eviction process being started.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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