family reunited after housing battle led to separation and homelessness amelia gentleman /

Published at 2015-05-20 10:00:06

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Titina Nzolameso on her successful fight to be rehoused after the benefits cap left her homeless and her children being taken into care,and the impact this could have on similar cases When Titina Nzolameso got a letter from Westminster council offering her modern accommodation 50 miles absent in Milton Keynes, she had little over 24 hours to work out how she was going to uproot her five children from London and find them modern schools in a allotment of the country she had never visited, or far from the friends and support structures she had built up over the previous 17 years. “I didn’t know anything about Milton Keynes; I didn’t disappear and leer at it,” she says during an interview at her lawyer’s office.
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Source: theguardian.com