Lexi Levens, 33, said the discrimination her family faced was “nothing short of distressing and humiliating”
A nurse who was left homeless has won a landmark rental case after agents and landlords refused to rent to her because she has children. On Christmas Eve, Lexi Levens and her family were handed a Section 21 no-fault eviction.
She added: "I couldn’t believe this was happening to me, yet the more I talked about it, the more people came forward saying they’d experienced the same or knew someone who had." Now, any letting agent who is a member of The Property Ombudsman will not be able to include blanket bans in property listings – or follow a landlord's orders to - without reasonable evidence or justification. If letting agents do not heed the warning, they may be required to pay compensation to who they discriminated against as they will be in breach of the Code of Practice.
Although Lexi and her family received a positive outcome, Shelter says much more needs to be done to tackle discrimination across private renting. The housing charity want increased regulation of private landlords and is urging the government to make its long-promised Renters’ Reform Bill law which would help to make this kind of blanket discrimination directly unlawful.
Top news stories today Polly Neate, Chief Executive of Shelter, said: “The Property Ombudsman finding that blanket ‘no children’ policies are a breach of the Code of Practice is undeniably an important win for tenants, but there is still more to be done to weed out discrimination in private renting.
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