A Rotherham family faces homelessness after being told to leave their house on Monday.
Parents Amy Winter and Joshua Thain, together with their three children who live with them, are expected to be evicted from the house on Brunswick Street in Thurnscoe due to overdue rent.
A judge ordered the family to leave the residence on January 31 due to several months of overdue rent payments, but Amy and Joshua claim Barnsley Council has been aware of the problem but has not assisted. Amy, 26, and Joshua, 27, are on Universal Credit and live with Sky, five, Daisy-Mae, four, and Lexi, 18 months old. Amy is five months pregnant, and the couple has a fourth kid, Macauli, who is nine years old and lives with Amy’s mother.
Amy told the Huddersfield Examiner: “It’s so bad we don’t go out or do anything because we’re afraid. I’ve asked my relatives if they can help, but they couldn’t because they only have one or two bedrooms.My partner’s uncle is the only person trying to help, however he lives in Somerset.
“I think Barnsley Council need to get off their backside and figure out what they’re going to do, instead of just telling us one thing and next thing a different thing.”
Sanctuary Housing owns the house, and the tenancy agreement was in the name of Joshua’s late mother, Victoria Robertshaw, 45, who died in August after testing positive for Covid-19.
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