“I’d already been in contact with my local council. They’d made me aware that there was a very limited time period in which the landlord could grant an eviction because of the eviction ban that had been temporarily put in place because of the pandemic. But my landlord was lucky in this case: because of the timings, the eviction still stood.

“I went straight to Shelter, who told me it was probably a retaliatory eviction (when a landlord tries to evict a tenant because they ask for repairs or complain about poor conditions). I contacted the council again to speak with the retaliatory eviction specialists, who looked at all the evidence and also believed it to be a ‘revenge’ eviction. The health and safety officer got involved and found a further 44 repair issues within the property, including ‘danger to life’ hazards.

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