A single mother was hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, and the landlord asked her to have a relationship with her to offset the rental fees, which forced her to compromise in order to secure her and her children's shelter.
According to Reuters,
"As a single mother, I have no choice. I don't want to lose my housing."
Due to the rising of house rental fees in recent years, trading sex for rental fees has come under growing scrutiny in the United States and Britain, and many people have even gradually published relevant rent advertisements online.
A survey by the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) found that 13% among the 100 housing groups had seen an increase in sexual harassment complaints during the coronavirus pandemic.
“Folks that are really vulnerable when faced with eviction, especially during a pandemic, they are sometimes faced with impossible choices,” said Morgan Williams, general counsel for the NFHA, which protects tenants against housing discrimination.
“The predators in the housing context ... seize upon that vulnerability,” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Wera Hobhouse, a British lawmaker who campaigns against ‘sextortion’ said,
“The financial difficulty which many across the UK have experienced as a result of COVID-19 will mean that more people will be forced to accept these arrangements as an alternative to being made homeless at the worst possible time,”
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