Member

I wish to share the stories of two of my constituents—Sally and Rachel. Sally is a student nurse in receipt of universal credit with a child with special educational needs and disabilities. She has privately rented her home for 14 years. The landlord has neglected the property significantly during this time, and the house has had extensive issues, with mould, leaks and water damage. Despite that, Sally wants to stay. Her landlord decided that it would be easier simply to evict her through a section 21 notice in order to carry out the extensive repairs that needed to be done to the house, leaving her and her son homeless. The callous use of a section 21 notice to displace a family in order to more conveniently perform repairs that should have already been done shocked me.