This isn’t a ban on evictions – it’s a plan for evictions.
Landlords will nonetheless have the ability to drag the 840,000 individuals in lease debt as a result of pandemic by way of the courts. That’s to allow them to put together to kick renters out of their houses, as quickly because it turns into authorized once more.
Simply think about the emotional and monetary pressure it places on households: this sequence of last-minute short-term pauses on evictions, the fixed risk of being taken to court docket, the benefit with which landlords carry out unlawful evictions – and all that on prime of the pandemic and so many individuals shedding work.
Public well being our bodies have stated that evictions will result in elevated transmission of Covid. If it’s unsafe for individuals to be evicted now, it’s not going to be protected by 21 February.
We want a everlasting eviction ban, and we’d like lease debt cancelled, now.