The shadow of eviction first fell across Eva, 43, a single mother training to be a solicitor, in April.
A letter from receivers acting for her private landlord’s lender warned that, amid sharp interest rate rises, he had fallen into mortgage arrears on the two-bedroom flat she had called home for six years in Haringey, north-east London. It was the start of five months of turmoil in which she, her seven-year-old twins and their pet cats faced homelessness.
