Submitted on Sunday 1st November 2020
Rejected on Friday 4th December 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Private rent should be suspended for the duration of the crisis
Private rent should be suspended for three months from November to help renters at risk of losing their homes during the pandemic. We ask the government to suspend all rent for the duration of the crisis, to cancel all debt already accrued and to put in place stronger protections against evictions.
A lot of tenants are not eligible for any of the government’s support schemes to help workers or universal credit, and have found it impossible to pay rent. The struggles many renters face during the pandemic are being ignored by the government.
People who are “struggling to make ends meet” should not have to pay rent at all during the pandemic.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
The terms of rent repayments are a contractual matter for landlords and renters, not the UK Government or Parliament.
If you would like the Government to provide a specific kind of support to renters that is within their responsibilities, you could start a petition about that.
You may wish to sign the following petitions which call for various actions to help renters:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/322068
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/561612
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www.gov.uk/coronavirus
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The Government has also created an online service to help you find out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support
You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips
You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/
You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.
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