We welcome the extension of the temporary ban on evictions, but more needs to be done.
Here’s a thread on how we think @RobertJenrick and @mhclg can help.
✅ Protecting renters from eviction when they’ve built up arrears as a result of the pandemic. 💰
✅ Increasing Local Housing Allowance to stop further rent arrears being built up due to gaps in the benefits system.
✅ Bringing forward the Renters Reform Act, so that no-fault evictions are abolished as soon as possible.
✅ Implementing a temporary pause on rent increases.
✅ Ending the five week wait for Universal Credit.
✅ Changing the benefit cap so that tenants in high rent areas, needing support for the first time, can benefit from that support.
✅ Implementing a 12-month suspension of ‘no recourse to public funds’ restrictions, giving support to those who would otherwise become homeless.
✅ Reinstating the duty court solicitor for housing, benefits and debt cases, as well as funding courts, local Citizens Advice bureaux and community law centres to support the digitally excluded.
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