The estate where dozens of renters were kicked out - days before ban on evictions

Private renter Asha Garway is “emotionally drained, stressed” and trying to “figure out” her next steps.

On 3 May, two days after no fault evictions were banned under the Government’s flagship Renters’ Rights Act came into force, she received an eviction notice telling her that she would be evicted from her home on the St James’ Place estate in Bermondsey, south London, by the end of June.

Asha has lived at St James for 13 years with her two sons and is one of around 150 tenants who have been hit with rent hikes or eviction notices and now face losing their homes after their estate of affordable privately rented accommodation was sold from one company, Folio, to another, BMR Group.

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“It’s really tough,” Asha says, sitting on the sofa in her living room with the letter, which was dated at the end of April – days ahead of the evictions ban. “Our rent is already £2,400 a month before bills.”