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F. is a single mother of two who suffers from depression. She was made homeless after a relationship break and her situation worsened when she was housed miles away from her known web of support.
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  • Samantha and her infant child have had spurts of rough sleeping when she had no one to turn to.
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  • Samantha is a single mum of three children that became homeless after her landlord gave her an eviction notice. The council of Newham did not fulfil his duty to house her. She became homeless. With no-where to go, Samantha relied on friends and family for support, including coach surfing in various homes.<br />
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  • Samantha is a London homeless, 35 year old single mum with three children aged 11, 9 and an infant of 5 months. She was renting privately until a few months ago when her landlord without much notice gave her an eviction notice that made her homeless. The council of Newham accepted her homeless status in June 2013,but did not perform its legal duty until February 2014.  Prior of this date and to this day, she has relied on friends and family for a place to sleep in. Last February, the council offered an emergency hotel room in Birmingham. For Samantha this would have meant losing her part time work, up-rooting her children   from school and losing all the support from her family and friends. On these basis she refused to go. The council offered then  a hotel room in Ilford. In her words, "she had to run away. It was filthy to the point that the bed had unwashed and stained covers, broken wardrobe and mould everywhere. The kitchen containing a single stove was serving 23 families. It had no fridge and no cupboards and dirty." Shocked she went straight to the council to denounce the place. Admittedly, they sent her to another emergency hotel room, again in Ilford. Equally rotten, she took photo as evidence which have enabled her to put a case forward into review. However, months later she is still living an unsettled life causing her and her children anguish.
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  • Samantha is a single mum of three children that became homeless after her landlord gave her an eviction notice. The council of Newham did not fulfil his duty to house her. She become homeless. With no-where to go, Samantha has relied on friends and family for support, coach surfing in various homes. In this photo, Samantha is holding her infant child outside her mother's flat.
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  • Samantha is a homeless mother of three children. Without a place to live, she is coach surfing. In this photo, she is living in a friends flat, whilst her two other sons live with her mother.
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  • After a long struggle with homelessness, Samantha is finally enjoying life with her children in a new flat. Samantha is very grateful to Shelter that has helped her with legal ground to her case, the basis of which she has been housed. Without this help, Samantha would have been still couch surfing with her three children.
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  • “I often stay in the flat for three to four days in a row.” Frieda is a single mother of two children. She suffers from depression following her precarious housing condition. She was moved to the council of Newham, miles away from her web of support.
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  • F. believes that the mental health problems she experiences are largely a result of prolonged isolation and the instability of her housing.
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  • Faye is a single mother with two children that was housed miles away from her parents and friends despite suffering severe depression.
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  • “I get panicky. I often stay in the house for three to four days in a row. “ F. <br />
F. is a single mother of two, suffering from severe depression, in need of support yet she was housed miles away from her web of support.
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  • F. is a single mother of two, suffering from severe depression, in need of support yet she was housed miles away from her web of support.
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  • F. is a single mother of two children suffering from depression being housed miles away from her much needed support of family and friends.
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  • F. often stays indoor for days suffering depression. She desperately needs support from her family, who was helping her a lot including providing her food. The council decision to house miles away from her support has been a very hard blow to her.
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  • The lack of affordable homes in the UK has affected badly young people that have no one to turn to for help. T. is one of the hundreds in the capital living in a hostel room for months.
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  • T. is a young homeless girl living in a hostel from many months.
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  • T. is in her room in a west London hostel.
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  • Alison's eldest child is finding it difficult to focus on his studies. His results at school are starting to show signs of deterioration. The child has confided to his teacher that he is finding it hard to study at home, but he feels guilty about complaining. Alison, Chichester.
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  • "Whenever you go to the council to explain your situation, it does not feel like they are even listening. They seem to just not care. They make you feel as if you are lying to be able to get on a higher priority band. But they should come and live the overcrowding. They just don't care." Alison.
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  • The quality of life of those living in overcrowded conditions is poor. It effects negatively well-being. Alison and her four children struggle with space.
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  • The UK has had a steady increase in the number of evictions since the year 2000. According to the Ministry of Justice 37,739 private and public sector tenants in 2013 saw their homes repossessed by court bailiffs. The 2014 statistics are not yet complete but show significant rises.
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  • B. suffers from diabetes and other ailments. The pending eviction with nowhere to go is a terrible ordeal.
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  • Linda and her mother live in a temporary small flat. Linda is not allowed to work, to receive any support until her permit to stay in the UK is granted. The pending eviction notice leaves her in very vulnerable condition.
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  • B. is waiting for the date of her eviction. She was told that to be ready to go and to be prepared for not having a place to go to.
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  • "I have rent arrears at the moment and so I am not sure I will be able to move in a bigger home" Linda, March
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  • B. was told to be ready to go and to be prepared for not having a place to go to.
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  • Linda, her mum and daughter have packed all their belongings and being waiting for some help for weeks.
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  • Linda is putting away her belongings in preparation to her imminent eviction. She gave away to charities most of her belongings as she had no place to go to.
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  • Linda in a hostel in Slough following an eviction from a small flat she was living with her seven years old child and her ill mother.
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  • At the end of the year 2014, The charity Shelter says that there are more than 90,000 children in England, Scotland and Wales  without a permanent home.
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  • Linda is a resident and an activist of West Kensington and Gibbs Green Estates planned to be demolished to give way to regeneration. A plan that would leave 761 households without a home.
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  • Linda in her flat within the West Kensington and Gibbs Green Estates threatened with demolition to give way to regeneration. Linda has been fighting towards a community led ownership of the estates which would give more power to the residents.
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  • Y. in the corridor of his home for the last six years in the morning of the eviction.
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  • F., pregnant with two children has been evicted from her flat of six years and moved in a hostel room miles away from the children school and her work.
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  • Philip is a 71 years old and most his life is described in paper files in plastic bin bags. These are his important files and in a way they determine how and what is happening to his life. Daniel,September.
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  • "I was born in Africa, my father was a business man, before he was in the Ministries. The political situation in Uganda was very bad and we had to go to India." Dani Hostel, Nikkunj
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  • Nikkunj has grave health problems and no family and/or friends to look out for him. One day, I found him unconscious in his hostel bed. I called the ambulance and I believe I saved his life as I was told by the paramedics.
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  • Nikkunj has been living in a  room in a temporary hostel accommodation for the last 19 months. Nikkunj, Hotel Dani, June, 2013.
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  • Nikkunj has been living in a  room in a temporary hostel accommodation for the last 19 months.
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  • It was days since my last visit to Nikkunj and I found that he had no food for days.
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  • Nikkunj in his room in the Hotel Dani. There are 45 rooms in the hostel accommodating individuals and families. Nikkunj, September 2013.
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  • Tasha is 19 and she has been homeless for three years now. She does not like her small room but she is grateful she is not in the streets. Tasha.
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  • "The hardest thing is to keep the children occupied in the hostel room" Francesca.
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  • After a long struggle with homelessness, Samantha is finally enjoying life with her children in a new flat. Samantha is very grateful to Shelter that has helped her with legal ground to her case, the basis of which she has been housed. Without this help, Samantha would have been still couch surfing with her three children.
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