Darren Evans, 51 was given four official days notice that he would need to leave the three-bedroom council home in Cardiff.
A devastated man has been told he needs to leave his childhood home of 51 years by March 20 - despite his family and neighbours warning that he won't cope well with the move. Darren Evans, 51, was informed he would need to leave the three-bedroom council house on Heol-Yr-Odyn in Caerau, Cardiff after his brother and father passed away just months apart.
He said: "It’s just been too much, what they’re doing. It’s been horrible. They’re not considering what I need. Kathleen said her dad died 'of a broken heart' after losing his own son just four months earlier and that people need to regularly drop in to check on Darren's wellbeing. She added: "He sits on the kitchen floor just rocking and watching the telly through the door. That’s not a life.
Jane Power, a friend and former neighbour who has known Darren for decades, said: "We grew up together… to see him being turfed out of his home is heartbreaking. This is something very rare, this street. "They can still send him bills for council tax and they’ve sent him letters in my dad’s name asking for rent arrears - they know he’s been dead for 14 months, and he was never in arrears because he couldn’t work due to COPD so the DWP paid his rent direct."
A change in the law in December, 2022, allows two successions in some circumstances but the new law still allows councils to move people to smaller accommodation if their property is proclaimed too big for their needs.
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