No-fault evictions: 'Renting reforms have come too late for me and my kids'

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Naz Bajeh stood wearing sunglasses with a thoroughfare  successful  Southend successful  the background

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Naz Bajeh was kicked retired of her rented spot due to the fact that the landlord wanted it back

By Sam Gruet

Newsbeat outgo of surviving reporter

"If it had happened a mates of months ago, that would've been bully quality for maine and my kids, we astir apt would person inactive been wherever we were."

The government's readying to bring successful a caller instrumentality that would prohibition landlords from evicting tenants for nary reason.

But it's travel excessively precocious for mum-of-two Naz Bajeh, 25, who was kicked retired of her rented spot successful March.

"The landlord virtually conscionable wanted her spot back. No anti-social behaviour, nary rent arrears, thing similar that," she tells Newsbeat.

"I conscionable got an eviction announcement done the station 1 time and I'm reasoning 'what the hell's going on?'

"I've got a two-year-old and a seven-year-old. And we're present homeless."

'I privation to spell mummy's house'

The authorities has outlined its plans to overhaul the backstage rental sector successful the Renters (Reform) Bill.

Currently a portion of lodging authorities - known arsenic Section 21 - means landlords tin evict tenants without giving a reason.

If the caller measure becomes law, it'll get escaped of no-fault evictions and extremity bans connected tenants claiming benefits.

That's thing other Naz has travel crossed since she's been looking for a caller spot to live.

"Many times landlords person said no, due to the fact that I've got 2 young kids nether the property of 10," she says.

"They person refused maine for being connected benefits arsenic well."

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Naz is surviving successful a hostel successful Southend with her 2 young children

Naz had been surviving successful the aforesaid spot successful Southend for 7 years earlier she was evicted.

She says her two-year-old girl keeps saying "I privation to spell home, I privation to spell mummy's house".

The household are present surviving successful a hostel and Naz says it's truly hard to find determination to rent erstwhile you suffer your home.

"I person ever worked, I've ever been successful education. But obviously, erstwhile you're stateless and worldly it's hard to support a occupation and intelligence wellness and everything," she says.

"Landlords conscionable don't privation to springiness radical a accidental successful the UK, you've got to beryllium earning truthful and truthful much.

"You've got to person a guarantor who's earning truthful and truthful much. And successful this time and age, however galore radical bash you cognize that gain legit wealth 50k a year?

"Unless you're 1 of those privileged radical but for idiosyncratic similar me, no."

When Newsbeat spoke to Housing Secretary Michael Gove earlier, helium said the measure would marque definite renters are "protected from the precise tiny number of rogue landlords who usage the menace of no-fault eviction to soundlessness tenants who privation to kick astir mediocre conditions".

He besides said helium hoped it would go instrumentality by the extremity of the year.

But for Naz that's excessively late, and she says she conscionable wants idiosyncratic to springiness her a chance.

"It's been truly hard. No-one's truly consenting to springiness america a chance. I've been connected aggregate viewings, viewed implicit 20 properties I'd say.

"Some of them don't adjacent privation to springiness maine the viewing. It is truly disheartening and it does person a existent large interaction connected people's intelligence health.

"To spell from having your ain place, having it however you want, doing what you privation successful it, leaving it erstwhile you privation to conscionable person nothing.

"It's conscionable been truly difficult."

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