“Being homeless for so long was really depressing and stressful,” said Ayeasha, 47 and from London. “For the first couple of years, I didn’t realise how much it was affecting my son.”
Now 14, Ayeasha’s son spent 12 years of his life across five different temporary accommodation properties. Many of these were riddled with disrepair, the mother said, with the ceiling collapsing in one.
