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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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  • Recent studies have found that children living in overcrowded conditions have lower school attainment and more difficulty in forming relationships. Alison recounts that her older children don't want to invite their school peers to their home.
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  • We have been living in this flat for 8 years waiting to be moved into a larger home. At the time, Ralph was one year old and Ollie was just two weeks old...
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  • When she became pregnant with the fourth child, Alison was feeling both happy and sad, yet hopeful that soon they would have been accommodated in a bigger home. Years later her situation did not change.
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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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  • "Then we wrote to the MP. Emily was 7 months old. Only then they said that the Environmental Health said that actually our home is only meant for 4 people so then we were moved back to B band" Alison
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  • "For us to be normal we wouldn't have to think of having no space"
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  • The family of six have been on a council waiting list for a bigger home for over three years.Recently the family has moved the younger children's beds into the living room.
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  • "We have been living in this flat for 8 years waiting to be moved into a larger home. At the time, Ralph was one year old and Ollie was just two weeks old..." Alison
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  • We have been living in this flat for 8 years waiting to be moved into a larger home. At the time, Ralph was one year old and Ollie was just two weeks old...
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  • Most studies on the housing crisis would demonstrate that those living in overcrowding are mostly living in social homes and thus depending on the State for housing. Linda, November 2012.
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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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  • "Living in an overcrowding conditions is stressful. There is not enough room for my little one to play, there is not enough storage so you have lots of clutter." Vivienne, October 2012.
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  • "living in an overcrowding conditions is a total nightmare. You cannot put your life in perspective". Linda
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  • "It is not easy living here ...even turning on the light... because my daughter is still little I can manage" Daniela, September 2013.
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  • Homelessness is a vast problem in Britain exacerbated by growing poverty and a shortage of housing. With nowhere to go, thousands of people like Linda are forced to live in temporary accommodation and in overcrowded and inadequate conditions while on council housing waiting lists.
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  • Daniela is a single mum and became  homeless through a series of bad circumstances. The council has offered her a temporary bedsit which she shares with her daughter. Daniela, September 2013.
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  • Sandy is reading her granddaughter homework from chair in the living room that she uses also for sleeping. She has just returned from a time in hospital with diabetes which has impaired her to walk. Sandy, October 2012.
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  • "Sometimes you wanna watch tv or wanna do computer but it is just a living room and the bedroom is too small  and you cannot have a tv or a computer there." Linda, February, 2012.
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  • "For us to be normal we wouldn't have to think of having no space, but we do all the time" Alison, Chichester, June 2012.
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  • "The children don't get time for themselves. They do not a have private space to go to study or just being for themselves." Alison, Chichester, June 2012.
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  • This is the bedroom in which Alison's four children sleep and play. Alison, Chichester, June 2012.
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  • "Everything is packed away, ready to move, yet we don't know when we are moving." Alison
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  • "Everything gets affected. It affects you psychological, even if we do love each other the lack of space makes us quarrel." Sandy, April 2012.
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  • "There are only two pieces of furniture that fit in the flat, the chest drawer and a medium sized futon which I share with my daughter" Daniela.
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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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  • 'Today the idea that it is fine to mess with your life because you are poor and you have no voice and power about being homeless is considered normal'. Linda
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  • Sandy sufferes from diabetes and is often in hospital.
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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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  • "we have been living In this flat for 8 years. Ralph, my first child was one year old and Ollie was just two weeks old." Alison, July 2013
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  • "I don't have my pretty things out anymore, no space to put my books, everything is packed away and ready to move, yet we don't know when and where we are moving to." Alison, Chichester, June 2012.
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  • "I don't have enough money. Everything is on top of you, you do the best you can, face the causes, and plead your case" Linda 2012
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  • Linda and her mother hardly ever have private moments but they often together.
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  • "I don't have enough money. Everything is on top of you, you do the best you can, face the causes, and plead your case" Linda.
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  • Sandy cannot walk because of diabetes. She sleeps and stays in the living room for most part of the days. Sandy, June 2013.
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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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  • Recent studies have found that children living in overcrowded conditions have lower school attainment and more difficulty in forming relationships. Alison recounts that her older children don't want to invite their school peers to their home.
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