{"id":1090,"date":"2014-11-23T07:04:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T00:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/revenge-evictions-an-electrician-said-our-shower-was-unsafe-the-landlords-response-was-to-evict-us\/"},"modified":"2016-01-10T09:29:34","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T02:29:34","slug":"revenge-evictions-an-electrician-said-our-shower-was-unsafe-the-landlords-response-was-to-evict-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/revenge-evictions-an-electrician-said-our-shower-was-unsafe-the-landlords-response-was-to-evict-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Revenge evictions: \u2018An electrician said our shower was unsafe. The landlord\u2019s response was to evict us\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nMore and more tenants are being evicted \u2013 often unfairly \u2013 new figures show. But pressure is growing for changeWhen Lela Lewis suffered a minor electric shock while she was taking a shower, it was the last straw \u2013 for her landlord. After learning from an electrician that the back wall of her flat was effectively running with a live electrical current and that it wasn\u2019t safe for her and her daughter to remain in their home, Lewis contacted her landlord, who responded by telling her she was to be evicted.\u201cI was floored. Nobody wants to rent to you when you\u2019re unemployed and I\u2019d been homeless for a while before eventually finding this place. I\u2019d told the landlord I wanted to make a home for myself and my daughter and asked him about the tenancy being only one year but he said not to worry, it would be renewed. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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