Forcing tenants out of their homes as Covid-19 cases rise is risky. Instead, ministers should rebalance the scales Mon 21 Sep 2020 19.22 BSTLast modified on Mon 21 Sep 2020 20.15 BST A protest against evictions in Parliament Square, London. A protest against evictions in Parliament Square, London. ‘The chronic insecurity of the UK’s private rental sector is unjust and harmful.’ Photograph: Guy Bell/Rex/Shutterstock Along with an emergency operation to end rough sleeping, the ban on evictions introduced in March was a crucial plank of the UK government’s coronavirus response. With children off school, and millions of adults furloughed or working from home, boosting housing security was a humane and pragmatic measure, without which it would have been far harder to enforce a lockdown that meant many people in the informal economy lost out on earnings.