Lily, a part-time nurse, failed to find an alternative property because rents had soared. In any case, says Lily, the fact her salary is topped up by universal credit means "letting agents don't give me a look-in, they want couples". With 19,000 households on Bristol's social housing waiting list, temporary accommodation was the only option.
The figure, from Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, includes more than 125,000 children, thousands of whom live in hotels, bed and breakfasts or other unsuitable properties. Similar figures for Scotland show more than 9,000 children in temporary accommodation, a record high.In Thamesmead, south-east London, seven-year-old Pyper and her mum, Tammy Ebsworth, have been in temporary accommodation for six years after a relationship breakdown left them homeless.
As Tammy talks, Pyper crouches down next to her, drawing and doing maths questions. Dealing with the prospect of moving has been a "nightmare", says Tammy. "She won't be able to see her dad, her nan on a weekend like she does now. She hasn't been sleeping. She's quite a handful at the moment." In next Wednesday's Budget, the charity wants the government to increase housing benefit, frozen since 2020 while rents have risen by 7.5% nationally.
Bet the illegal, Dover invaders are sleeping well, no trauma or tears in hotels where British homeless should be! 😏🚮
Where is Koby's father?
The more we can do to help these poor families the better.
Just to be helpful several African countries welcome back people who may have left the continent in years gone by. A warm climate, accommodation and little or no racism. What's not to like.
Moreover, families that are struggling to make ends meet as a result of the conservative government's introduction of the cost of living issue into our world
Not 'small boats' are this a priority. Instead of Gary Lineker, this should be news.
Can we now all stop paying the licence fee as it’s clear the BBC are a corrupt run by the Tories broadcaster
Been there as a child, it's not nice, yet the wealthy & people who have never gone through this want the UK to bring in MORE migrants, despite the fact we have yet to take care of the UK's housing & health needs. Funny how migrant sympathy never extends to our own poor & needy.
A lot of responsibility for the situation these people are in is down to having children when they cannot afford to keep them! The money saved on funding the small boat illegal migrants could go a long way to helping them but people like Lineker just want them to keep coming in!
Reinstate Gary Lineker . Or don’t you support free speech?
And families living in poverty because of the cost of living crisis brought into our lives by the conservative government
BBC can make programs using false information and gets away with it. When an honest comment is made by employee they fire him. What a Bullshit Management
BoycottBBC
Wonder if old Gary Lineker will speak up for the homeless people, or is just refugees he loves. It amazes me how many people will protest for refugees, but they won't stand stand up for our own homeless! Shame on them.
ToryBritain
This is a priority not ‘small boats’. This should be news, not Gary Lineker
the word you were looking for beebs was 'exhaustion', i mean, really, ffs
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