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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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