https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjq5qxlgy39o
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When Heidi Dodson discovered she was going to be evicted, she reached out to her local council of Thurrock in Essex for help. But it rejected her application for priority housing and said she would cope if she ended up on the streets. Two weeks after being evicted, Heidi is homeless and sleeping in a park.
Sounds shit, but this has been the reality of single men for decades at this point. Anyway....
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Every evening Heidi Dodson reads her grandchildren a bedtime story and wishes them good night.
Then she quietly packs a rucksack with a torch, biscuits and some toilet roll, and makes a flask of tea, before making her way to a local park to spend the night.
Wait... what? Ok. So I assume her family are in emergency housing or something? Probably a bedsit? There's just no room at the Inn.
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She ended up at her daughter’s, but the two-bedroom flat is already overcrowded with two adults and two children, plus Heidi’s adult son who was made homeless alongside her.
With the mother-daughter relationship strained through lack of space, Heidi decided it was better to remove herself from the situation, even though her daughter urged her not to sleep outdoors.
Oh. So in other words she's just being a martyr. Nothing to see here.