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
Megi talks about her young daughter and her family's slow burial in Hackney council's housing bureaucracy
Megi has an 8 year old daughter with autism.
Megi talks about her daughter and the family's housing issues in this episode.
She also takes us on a rollercoaster ride (some cracking downhill bits) through the 5 years that she's spent getting absolutely nowhere in her attempts to get her family rehoused.
Megi's daughter is non verbal, not toilet trained and very active and strong. She generally only sleeps for an hour or two a night.
She also has serious meltdowns.
Their family of 3 lives in a one bedroom flat on the 5th floor of a council block.
The girl is at serious risk of a fatal fall from the 5th floor. She can break locks and even windows, so needs 24/7 supervision. Also, the flat is far too small. Megi sleeps on the floor.
The family has been begging Hackney council to move them to a ground floor or first floor place as a matter of haste.
"Are you waiting for the worse to happen before you do something?” one exasperated health visitor wrote to the council.
Good question.
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Episode photo: picture from Megi of the drop from the 5th floor of their flat