A DEVASTATED daughter claims that she was kicked out of her family home days after her mum died from Covid.
Jennifer Rodden, 20, claims that a housing association came to her door with a list of homeless charities after her mum passed away in Lancashire..
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Alison, 50, died in August last year after battling with the killer virus for seven weeks, and sending her daughter a final heartbreaking message.
She was induced into a coma after being rushed to hospital, but texted Jennifer to say: “I’m scared, please pray I get well in a couple of days I love you Jen.”
Just days after her mum passed away, her daughter claims that the landlord told her she needed to be out “ASAP.”
Explaining the situation in a video on TikTok she said: “It was a housing association, you have a specific landlord from that association who worked for them.
“They actually came to me and spoke to me when it happened. They did a full check on my income while I was working and they told me it all got accepted.
“I could afford to pay the rent, which I comfortably could. It was cheaper rent than anywhere that I’m gonna have to pay now when I do move into my own place.
“They credit checked everything. After that I thought I was going to be able to take over this tenancy.
“But then after all that, they then said, ‘Oh, well, we have a policy like when a tenant dies, like a child can’t take over.’
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“They kept saying it was because I was a child. I was about to turn 20 at the time, so that was wrong.”
Blogger Jen also claims she was asked to pay £700 in backdated rent that her mum had been unable to transfer because she was in her induced coma.
She eventually got help from Citizens Advice, who explained that the housing association had to give her a notice period.
The family have also set up a JustGiving page in an attempt to support Alison’s children.
Jen added: “I got legal experts involved, they managed to help me.
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“They told the housing people that they were in the wrong and that they didn’t have any rights to charge me because I was just a child living there like I wasn’t the tenancy holder.
“But regardless of all the help that I did get, I still had to be out after they’d given me a notice.
“They actually didn’t give me a notice at first, they did just turn up and said ‘you need to get out as soon as possible’.
“But then once I spoke to legal experts at Citizens Advice, they told the housing association you need to give her a notice you’re doing it wrong.”
Jen is not the first to be made homeless by a housing association after the death of a parent.
Brogan Webb, 23, claims housing association Sanctuary kicked her and her sister Taylor out onto the street – making them homeless.
The student lost her mum to cancer in February, and within three weeks was told she needed to leave their home in Glasgow.
