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B.C.’s eviction freeze under COVID-19 keeps landlords out of own home

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The B.C. government’s freeze on evictions is meant to help struggling renters during the novel coronavirus pandemic, but a Vancouver Island couple says the ban has backfired and is keeping them from their own home.

Gunn Yardley and her husband rented out their home while away on an extended winter vacation, but said that when they returned from Mexico, their short-term renters stayed put and stopped paying rent.

Instead of living in their home, they now have to rent themselves. Yardley said she’s owed $10,000 in unpaid rent. “We gave them a 10-day eviction notice,” she said. “We had a hearing set up because (they) argued against it for the 26th of March.” That was right around the time evictions were banned in B.C.

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