The case of Darren and Steven Marshall, brothers who shared a home for 55 years before being evicted and forced to live apart, is a stark human illustration of a housing crisis that policymakers have spent years debating in the abstract. Behind the statistics on rental supply, tenancy law reform and landlord exits lies a growing number of stories like this one — long-term tenants, often older or vulnerable, losing settled homes not through any fault of their own but because the economics and legal architecture of the private rented sector have shifted decisively against them.