Renters on the Isle of Wight affected by the coronavirus pandemic will continue to be protected after the Government extended the ban on evictions for another 4 weeks.
The Government has also given tenants greater protection from eviction over the winter by requiring landlords to provide tenants with 6 months’ notice in all bar those cases raising other serious issues such as those involving anti-social behaviour and domestic abuse perpetrators, until at least the end of March.
Officials will keep these measures under review with decisions guided by the latest public health advice.
When courts do resume eviction hearings, they will carefully prioritise the most egregious cases ensuring landlords are able to progress the most serious cases, such as those involving anti-social behaviour and other crimes, as well as where landlords have not received rent for over a year and would otherwise face unmanageable debts.
Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick MP said:
“I know this year has been challenging and all of us are still living with the effects of COVID-19. That is why today I am announcing a further 4 week ban on evictions, meaning no renters will have been evicted for six months.
“I am also increasing protections for renters – six month notice periods must be given to tenants, supporting renters over winter.
“However, it is right that the most egregious cases, for example those involving anti-social behaviour or domestic abuse perpetrators, begin to be heard in court again; and so when courts reopen, landlords will once again be able to progress these priority cases.”
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What about some protection for landlords not getting their rent paid and losing their income .
I’m sure a lot of people will be a bit happier
Apparently the word ‘i m m i g r a n t’ is censored
Maybe you’re trying to say refugees? They don’t get put up in 4* hotels, they go to detention centers. Be more concerned about billionaires not paying tax than a few desperate asylum seekers in a dinghy. Your racism is abhorrent.
They’re putting them in hotels, how they’re being detained in side them is another question…atleast since lock down. Nigel Farage and many others have covered it, check youtube. Mainstream media arent touching it.
As for this evictions, they also been housing folk in hotels , in some cases converted office blocks for years now…the housing crisis is shot !
Note worth mentioning, the council has been advising tenants to anchor down, only way they can be evicted is via court eviction.However this will halt that and no doubt the courts are back logged aswell.
In all its a sad state of affairs, I wouldnt be surprised if England and Wales dont follow Scotland. Which are not allowing evictions until March 2021. Something needs to change…
There is no way that any dirt poor newcomer is a bonus to our society now. We have had years of such arriving, and now, with jobs becoming scarce once again, then cheap imported labour is not needed.
For those millions who have arrived over the years usually have huge families so there is no longer the need to bring over the rest of the continent.
Many wrongly assume that so long as a newcomer ‘works’ then all is well.
Yet most work part time in low paid jobs, then earning little a costly home is provided, the rent and council tax is heavily subsidised, as the low earnings can never pay the rent and c.tax fully. Add huge sums of child allowance, and child and working tax credit payment to such and they, even IF working are costing us all greatly.
Clearly some earn enough to support themselves fully, and those few are welcome, but they are the exception not the rule, and with job losses, but more people arriving, will become increasing so.
We all have to watch our countryside be built on to house if not newcomers direct those escaping their then unrecognisable towns, villages and cities.
Yet employers know that desperate people keep wages low, and being party donators the Gov need to keep such sweet, and then lie to convince us that such is ‘somehow’ good for us, when it clearly isn’t.
Idiot .
Your ignorance is abhorrent, lol
Thank the boomers. The last generation to be better off than the previous. When a one person wage could afford a mortgage. Pensioners of today have never had it so good. From generation x onwards… we’re all screwed.
Only because you think your entitled to everything for free without working for it .
Says someone who has no idea that I’ve grafted my entire adult life as a self employed single parent 😀 Never been given anything for free, and neither should I have. I have four limbs, a healthy body, and as long as I can do for Myself, I shall.
I’m sorry but no one has a right to live rent free from someone else. Landlords have mortgages to pay and other associated costs with offering a property to rent. If the government wishes to offer this protection then it should be backed up by the government paying the rent directly to the landlord whilst the tenant is unable to pay. I also bet that the landlord is expected to maintain this property in terms of gas safe, a boiler breakdown etc etc whilst not getting a penny from the tenants.