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Hundreds of thousands of renters in Great Britain face being kicked out of their homes when a ban on evictions put in place to protect tenants during coronavirus is lifted on Tuesday, a leading charity has warned.

An estimated 400,000 renters have either been served an eviction notice or told they could be, according to research published on Monday by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The charity estimated that a further 1m households were concerned about possible eviction in the next three months, half of them families with children.

Tenants from black, Asian or minority ethnic backgrounds were almost twice as likely to have concerns about eviction than those from a white background, according to the JRF, which polled more than 10,000 households in England, Scotland and Wales.

As England's coronavirus eviction ban comes to an end on Monday, around a million households fear losing their homes, a charity says.

About 400,000 renters have had eviction notices or been told to expect them, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation says.

One renter in arrears told the BBC his landlord has "the power to just flick their finger and get me out".

But a landlord said she had struggled to pay her mortgage while her tenant was not paying rent.

The government said it was balancing the needs of landlords to use the courts with support for tenants by continuing to require extended notice periods.

During the pandemic, bailiffs were asked not to carry out evictions if anyone living in the property had Covid-19 symptoms or was self-isolating.

Eviction notice periods were extended to six months as an emergency measure during the pandemic - but will drop to four months from 1 June. Before the pandemic, notice periods were usually two months in England.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation economist Rachelle Earwaker said many renters in low income work such as catering or taxi driving had lost their livelihoods in the pandemic and ending the eviction ban risks "a two-tier recovery".

"We're really worried that there will be a wave of homelessness coming through," said Ms Earwaker.

The charity commissioned YouGov to question more than 10,000 adults, a quarter of them renters, in England, Wales and Scotland, early in May.

The findings suggest that, compared with homeowners, renters are more than three times as likely to be behind with rent or bills (6% vs 19%).

They were also twice as likely to worry about:

meeting their housing costs (10% vs 20%)
and losing their homes within three months (5% vs 11%)
Black and minority ethnic households, those on lower incomes and those with children had the highest levels of concern, the research suggests.