Single mother shares ‘petrifying’ moment family is evicted as thousands face homelessness
A mother said that hundreds of thousands of families have been released with their children because they were faced with losing their homes in England.
There were 124.210 families in the UK The research on shelter shows, which faced homelessness at 2024/25, is equivalent to one of every 57 families.
Of these, 70,630 is the only parent households, one of every 24 people.
The housing aid organization adds that there is an increase of 10 percent in the number of families, which are considered homeless by local councils, and that it is close to homelessness compared to five years ago.
His three -single mothers Angela Carruthers have been living in a temporary stay in Birmingham for two years.
After he lost his 12 -year house because he decided to sell the host, Angela and his children moved three times. Currently staying in a hotel mile away from the community after the third temporary accommodation property.
Angela told Independent: “You can imagine someone who comes to your house on the day you are released and you won’t know where to go.”
“We are all in hysterics because we lived there for a long time, and the children had friends there, their schools, their jobs were down school – perfect. And they were all dismantled from us in a few hours.”
At that time, his children were eight, 15 and 17 years old. When they reached temporary accommodation, a hotel organized by the local council – six months before Angela’s release – there was no electric or hot water for five days.
“For a parent, when you don’t know where to be with your children, it’s really stoned. Because yes, I couldn’t protect them, I couldn’t support them. This is my job as a parent, but it’s completely out of my hands.”
Angela recently faced evacuation, but with the help of shelter, he was able to remain on his current property. However, the mother now lives in temporary accommodation for two years and says she wants to find safe permanent social housing.
Im I have no control over anything in my life or in my children’s life, ”he said,“ Just as they play God with people. They separated my family and prevented my children from progressing. ”
Jenny Lamb, a shelter policy manager, said: ız We have been in the middle of a housing emergency in the middle of a long time and affects millions of people.
Uz We hear the terrible stories that people find themselves on the sharp end of housing emergency. Families spend sleepless nights to lose their homes and get away from their jobs, communities and children’s schools.
“[It’s] A system that fails people at every opportunity. We have record -high special rents and a really affordable social housing lack of social housing, and when you combine it with frozen housing benefits that make it suitable for many people, you result in this absolute emergency. “
The housing aid organization called on the government to build more social housing targeting 900,000 targets from existing 300,000 commitments in the next decade.
In addition, the ministers, housing, which determines the payment rate of the benefits of the local housing allowance to resolve. Rental costs leave the amount that special tenants can support.
In addition to HSBC, Shelter has launched a campaign to raise awareness of families living in temporary accommodation, and thousands of people are currently finding themselves.
Last month, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner announced in the next decade that it plans to build 300,000 new affordable houses, including 180,000 social houses.
