Get our daily coronavirus email newsletter with all the news you need to know direct to your inbox Invalid Email Something went wrong, please try again later. The pandemic ban on evictions ends tomorrow and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation said 400,000 homes have either received notices to quit or are under threat of having to leave. Campaigners fear a wave of court orders for repossessions as bailiff-enforced evictions, halted in March 2020, resume. On top of the 400,000 expecting to be evicted, 450,000 more are in rent arrears. Shadow Housing Secretary Lucy Powell said: “The Government is wilfully walking into a crisis.”Pandemic rent debt is thought to have hit £360million.

Source: Daily Mirror May 30, 2021 23:01 UTC