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    Faith MacNeil Taylor‏ @faith_e_taylor 13 Aug 2020

    my landlord is evicting us over my wife's quarantine courgette harvest: 🥒👩‍🌾🪴👻 1. Three days ago we received a Section 21 notice from our letting agent on behalf of our landlord, who is making us homeless in December at the probable next peak of the pandemic because...

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      2. Faith MacNeil Taylor‏ @faith_e_taylor 13 Aug 2020

        2. ...she's angry that we have been growing vegetables in the garden we legally share with her over the last few months. she lives above us and we rent her basement on an AST. The ads for our flat stated that shared access to the garden was included in the lease.

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      3. Faith MacNeil Taylor‏ @faith_e_taylor 13 Aug 2020

        3. It was a big draw for us - we’d been longing for proper outdoor space for years. In our tenancy agreement, which we scoured before beginning our tenancy, we also saw that we had obligations to tend to the garden.

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      4. Faith MacNeil Taylor‏ @faith_e_taylor 13 Aug 2020

        4. We figured that this was just our landlord covering her back in case we trashed it - though it literally says we have to mow the lawn - and at least we had evidence that we were genuinely renting a home with a garden.

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      5. Faith MacNeil Taylor‏ @faith_e_taylor 13 Aug 2020

        5. We were so excited to have a garden - Sky! Grass! We could sit at dusk and feel nature - such a rare thing in London.

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      6. Faith MacNeil Taylor‏ @faith_e_taylor 13 Aug 2020

        6. From the start of the tenancy, our landlord harassed us consistently. She tried to gain entry to our home repeatedly without our consent, ignored repair requests, reported us for invented misbehaviours

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      7. Faith MacNeil Taylor‏ @faith_e_taylor 13 Aug 2020

        7. One month we would find out that she’d complained about us ‘kicking doors’, the next we would find out she had accused us of leaving trash that wasn’t even ours (it was in fact hers, we saw her gardener disposing it).

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      8. Faith MacNeil Taylor‏ @faith_e_taylor 13 Aug 2020

        8. Our landlord instructed us not to make written requests to the letting agent, we were to only go through her verbally. Soon afterwards, we found out via the letting agent that she had been spying on us through our window and was concerned about where we were drying clothes.

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      9. Faith MacNeil Taylor‏ @faith_e_taylor 13 Aug 2020

        9. She tried to get rid of our cat. She demanded a random property inspection. She sent us a handwritten note announcing that if any of our mail accidentally ended up on her doormat, she would be sending it away. Duly, things went missing - gifts from family members, cards.

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      10. Faith MacNeil Taylor‏ @faith_e_taylor 13 Aug 2020

        10. We waited, terrified, for months for immigration documents, believing she had sent them back. Throughout it all, she never acknowledged we were a couple. We were just ‘friends’. And she didn’t like us being there, that was clear.

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      11. Faith MacNeil Taylor‏ @faith_e_taylor 13 Aug 2020

        11. She bristled, huffed, tutted and slammed her back door behind her when she saw us expressing affection to each other. Still, when the pandemic hit and lockdown started, we were grateful to have a home with garden access. We’d barely used the garden before.

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      12. Faith MacNeil Taylor‏ @faith_e_taylor 13 Aug 2020

        12. My wife, Meghan, is studying horticulture so saw it as the perfect opportunity to grow some vegetables in pots and improve our apocalypse survival skills. We took the only available corner in the garden, between our landlord's back window and the garden wall.

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      13. Faith MacNeil Taylor‏ @faith_e_taylor 13 Aug 2020

        13. The rest of the garden is taken up with her plants and lawn. We didn’t uproot anything, we didn’t touch her plants or even the soil. We pitched up some pots, filled them with our own compost, and Meghan began to plant.

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      14. Faith MacNeil Taylor‏ @faith_e_taylor 13 Aug 2020

        14. Meghan’s efforts were amazingly successful. She tended to her crops meticulously. Within a few months we had a steady stream of courgettes, some corn, sugar snap peas, runner beans, bell peppers. All from a few pots in our garden.

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      15. Faith MacNeil Taylor‏ @faith_e_taylor 13 Aug 2020

        15. It was glorious to behold. We shared each new stage of flowering and fruiting to friends on Instagram, we were so excited to have our first harvests. But the complaints soon started rolling in.

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      16. Faith MacNeil Taylor‏ @faith_e_taylor 13 Aug 2020

        16. We were told via our letting agent - they started calling us on a blocked number - that our landlord was unhappy with how many plants there were. It felt so ridiculous, so mean, so petty in such a terrible time for so many people. We were using just one corner of the garden.

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      17. Faith MacNeil Taylor‏ @faith_e_taylor 13 Aug 2020

        17. Swiftly, our landlord began to harass us in person about the plants. Her daughter came out and photographed them, telling us there were too many, saying we should have asked.

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      18. Faith MacNeil Taylor‏ @faith_e_taylor 13 Aug 2020

        18. Our landlord shouted through our back door at us, while we were working at our desks. In her words, we had ‘no right to plant vegetables’ in ‘her’ garden. We were rattled - she’d started crossing significant boundaries by harassing us in our own home.

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      19. Faith MacNeil Taylor‏ @faith_e_taylor 13 Aug 2020

        19. Later that day, she kicked over our outdoor chairs in front of us. That evening, we found our new hose had been slashed. There was a deep cut in it so it no longer worked.

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      20. Faith MacNeil Taylor‏ @faith_e_taylor 13 Aug 2020

        20. We received the eviction notice the morning after this incident. That same day, our landlord berated us in the garden, saying previous tenants ‘didn’t have the audacity to grow vegetables’. We said we were being made homeless over some courgettes. She didn’t care.

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      21. Faith MacNeil Taylor‏ @faith_e_taylor 13 Aug 2020

        22. And so it is, that in December, at probably the second peak of a global pandemic, we will be forced out of our home by an abusive landlord who, by all accounts, is jealous of my wife’s vegetables. In her own words, we have no right to grow them.

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      22. Faith MacNeil Taylor‏ @faith_e_taylor 13 Aug 2020

        23. No right to grow. What a sentiment. What a thing to forbid and despise. Growth, abundance, nurture. None of these belong to us - no, we are literally audacious to think so. So we will wait for the winter, watch our crops die, pack up our things and continue searching.

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      23. Faith MacNeil Taylor‏ @faith_e_taylor 13 Aug 2020

        original blog post here: https://www.faithtaylor.org/blog/2020/8/13/my-landlord-is-evicting-me-over-my-wifes-quarantine-courgette-harvest-1 … any signal boosting is very uplifting, thanks for your support so far. we went to bed defeated and woke up feeling empowered.

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      24. Faith MacNeil Taylor‏ @faith_e_taylor 13 Aug 2020

        hopefully getting the word out about experiences like ours will put pressure on westminster to follow scotland's suit and extend the eviction ban @Shelter @LDNRentersUnion @ACORN_tweets @HackneyAbbott @Stonewallhousin @Victoria_Spratt

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      25. Faith MacNeil Taylor‏ @faith_e_taylor 13 Aug 2020

        thanks for all of your support. it means a lot. since this thread has picked up some traction, please have a look at @AkwaabaHackney's fundraiser: http://www.givey.com/akwaabac19emergencyfund?fbclid=IwAR050kkXZjeXH721h75vmMS0l9SHTiSgk63qZtfKsk8nnvGZjeMEBvFty5c … the people most affected by this exploitative housing system are precarious migrants. any donation helps.

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      26. Faith MacNeil Taylor‏ @faith_e_taylor 14 Aug 2020

        Oh by the way, for those wondering what kind of letting agent would wilfully let all this happen and indeed participate in it, it’s.................................................................................@AtkinsonMcleod

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