PROTESTERS have demanded a council urgently rehouse a father and his daughter before they become homeless later this month.

Front-line mental health worker Petrus Burin and his daughter have been told the bailiffs will evict them from their home on August 28 after being served a no-fault eviction notice in early 2022.

Some 30 members of the London Renters Union (LRU) demonstrated in Walthamstow, east London, over the authority’s failure to rehouse them in the community that his daughter goes to school.

Petrus, a member of the union, said: “I’m tired of feeling the emotional stress of not knowing where my daughter and I will live in a few weeks’ time.

“I just want a place for us to call home and move on with our lives.

“The fear of being homeless impacts me so deeply that it is easy to lose myself. The process has felt really hostile and dehumanising.”

LRU held a demonstration in April after accusing the council of “ignoring” Petrus’s homelessness application for more than a year. 

But Petrus and his daughter are still waiting for a new home and members protested again on Saturday outside the authority’s cabinet member for housing, Ahsan Khan’s surgery in Walthamstow Central Library.

Liam Miller, spokesman for the LRU, said: “The council must not leave Petrus and his daughter waiting and wondering where they will live any longer. 

“After a year of shutting Petrus’s family out of vital support, it’s outrageous that the council is still failing to say when they will rehouse them or if it will be in the local community. 

“No-one should have to live with the threat of homelessness hanging over their head for months on end.”

Waltham Forest Council has been approached for comment.