Who voted for this
Interviews with people dealing with housing problems and welfare cuts. Dislike for those who let it all happen.
Kate Belgrave
Journalist and blogger
Contact:
kate@katebelgrave.com
Homepage photos courtesy of Latoya, the mother of the little boy with autism in the first episode.
Who voted for this
Harassment by councils - when you're trying keep a disabled boy housed
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In this episode, we hear about the ways that councils can drive people in housing need to the brink.
This episode is the 4th about a family with a disabled and autistic 8 year old boy. Hackney council is trying to evict this family - with bailiffs - from their council home of 18 years.
The boy's paediatric doctor is so concerned about the threat this eviction poses to the little boy's health that she's making a safeguarding referral - ie she feels that the boy needs protecting from the council.
Meanwhile Kyla, the boy's mother, says she is feeling suicidal because the council won't stop calling and emailing to tell her to get out of her home of 18 years and to move her family into temporary housing.
Her daughter talks about her mother's deteriorating mental health in this episode.
Harassment by bureaucracy, innit. Councils and the DWP are masters of it.
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