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The eviction ban: chaos set to continue
When it comes to rental housing policy, the only certainties are that this government will legislate at the last minute and badly, and that its mistakes will clog up the courts for years to come, says DAVID RENTON

ON FRIDAY afternoon, the government announced that the stay on housing possession hearings (“the eviction ban”) will be extended for a further four weeks, until September 20. 

The  organisations calling for the ban to be extended included the charities Shelter and Crisis, the London Councils, the District Councils Network, the Labour Party, the House of Commons’ cross-party housing, communities and local government committee, the mayors of London and Greater Manchester, and 16 of the UK’s leading public-health organisations. 

On the other side of the argument was the landlords’ organisation the National Residential Landlords Association – and hardly anyone else.

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