A mother has told about the moment she was evicted with her children because hundreds of thousands of families have to be faced. Lose your homes in BritainNew analysis has shown.
England had 124,210 families Homeless In 2024/25, the research show from shelter is equal to one of every 57 families.
Of these, 70,630 are single-mother-father houses, which are around one in every 24.
Accommodation Charity says that the number has increased by 10 percent Family Evaluated by their local council On homeless or adjacent growth Homeless Five years ago compared to.
Single Mother-of-Three Angela Karutors are homeless for two years and are currently living in temporary housing in Birmingham.
After losing 12 year old house Because the landlord decided to sellAngela and her Children Has gone three times. He is now in his third temporary accommodation property that is first from his community after staying in a hotel in a hotel.
Angela told Independent: “You can imagine someone coming to your house on the day you are going to be evicted and don’t know where you are going.”
“We are all only in hysterics because we lived there for so long and the children had their friends, their school, work under school – it was perfect. It was perfect. And it all got away from us in a gap of hours.”
At that time, his children were eight, 15 and 17 years old. When they reached the temporary residence, the local council had arranged – a hotel, despite knowing six months before Angela’s eviction – did not have electricity or hot water for five days.
“For that one ParentsWhen you do not know where you are going with your children, it is really rare. Because yes, I could not protect them, I could not support them. This is my job as a parents but it was completely out of my hands. ,
Angela recently faced eviction again, but was able to remain in his current property with the help of shelter. However, the mother has now lived in temporary housing for two years, and says she wants to be able to find a safe permanent social house.
“I have not found any control over anything in my life or in my children’s life,” he said, “it’s the same as they are playing the role of God with people. They have divided my family, stopped my children from progressing.”
Shelter policy officer Jenny Lamb said: “We are in the middle of a housing emergency that we have been in the middle for a long time, and it is affecting millions of people.
“We are listening to the terrible stories of people finding ourselves at the fast end of the housing emergency. Families are sleeping worried about losing their homes, their work, their communities, their children going away from their schools.
,[It’s] A system that is failing people at every turn. We have a record high private fare and really affordable social housing, and when you combine it with frozen housing benefits that take private rent for so many people, you end in this full emergency. ,
Housing Charity has called for the government to create more social housing, which aims to a target of 900,000 in the next ten years, with the current 300,000 pledge.
It has also urged the ministers to unfriend the local housing allowances, which determine the rate on which the benefits related to the housing are paid. The cost of rent is removing the amount that can claim private tenants in support.
Along with HSBC, Shelter has launched a campaign to raise awareness about families living in temporary housing, and hard, often dangerous, thousands of people in situations are still finding themselves.
Last month, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rener Announced plans To construct 300,000 new affordable houses including 180,000 social homes in the next decade.