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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Bryony Gooch

‘It’s too scary to be in a tent’: On the frontline of this winter’s refugee homelessness crisis

Less than a week after becoming street homeless, an Ethiopian refugee came to the Refugee Council when her latent tuberculosis was at risk of becoming active.

Just 28 days after receiving her refugee status, she was forced to sleep in a tent in south London after she was evicted from an asylum hotel in the last week of September.

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