My name is Carlo and I am accompanied by my partner Ellie.
We were evicted from our apartment 7 days ago at the time of this post as the result of our inability to pay our rent. The reason for that is that our rent has increased 3 times in the 18 months we lived in our apartment. It jumped from £900, to £1,000 to £1,100 per month. I work as a bartender and at first it was easy for me to pick up extra shifts to make up the extra costs.
However, a combination of factors eventually made it difficult for us to meet the new rent amount. This ranged from my partner’s mental illness (Borderline Personality Disorder) to her increasing need of mobility aid because of her having been diagnosed as having chronic fatigue which is sporadic in nature and drastically limits her mobility.
We were evicted from our apartment because eventually as time went on we started to fall into arrears and evidently I told the landlord that the rent amount is untenable and we’d need to negotiate as we have no place to go. Her family excommunicated her due to her mental illness and mine are not in the country (United Kingdom).
On the surface, the landlord seemed willing to just accept whatever amount we could give, only to then be served by multiple eviction notices over the past 8 months. When confronted with it, the landlord told us not to worry and that he was going to have them withdrawn and that he wasn’t really going to take action.
That is, up until the 28th of February 2023, 7 days ago. We were woken up to the sound of bailiffs knocking on our door and telling us that we are being served with a court ordered eviction and that we had to leave the property at that moment. We were booted out on the street with what luggage and stuff we could carry and have been sleeping rough around the borough of Haringey, sometimes we would get lucky and receive the donations of strangers so that we can find some shelter for the night.
This can only go on for so long obviously. We desperately need a sum of money that can end this by helping us pay for the deposit of a small, modest room so that we can be out of the cold for good, and that we can build back from the ground up. We need your help. Please.