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Hidden homeless

A heartbreaking number that goes up every year
Homelessness
More homeless children have died in temporary accommodation. The response has been described as 'apathy'.
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The children’s home where ‘staff are exhausted and lack the skills to manage kids’ behaviours’
Oldham
The home has been slammed by a government watchdog.
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Kids moved out of children’s home slammed as ‘inadequate’ by watchdog
Oldham
The home will have to give three months notice before it can accept any new kids after 'serious failings'.
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'You're not even paying to stay here, you've no right to complain'
Oldham
Families facing homelessness are being placed in hotels intended for short stays, but with nowhere else to go, many are left living in a single room for months. One family’s experience sheds light on a system under strain. Charlotte Hall reports.
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'At some point it just feels like you’re being fobbed off'
Oldham
'You sit there, and you don’t even look at what you’re bidding on, you just bid.'
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Waking up on the streets of Manchester in the bitter cold
Homelessness
'You just have to grin and bear it'
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The kids living under 'huge pressure' in a Greater Manchester borough
Oldham
Councillors are calling for change.
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'The phone could ring any day - then it's time to pack up and move again'
Homelessness
Six months ago Chloe became homeless while pregnant, now she faces uncertainty and the regular possibility of upheaval. In an M.E.N. Special Report Stephen Topping investigates the growing crisis of precarity in temporary accommodation.
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"One of the rules is we don't talk about things in the past"
Homelessness
A retired GP, Kathryn opened her home to those who needed shelter after her three sons had moved out
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'I need to make £19 - some nights I do, some nights I don't'
Bolton
'I can't stay on the streets... it's absolutely freezing'
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More than 5,000 primary school kids in Greater Manchester will be homeless this Christmas
Homelessness
A charity has warned of the heartbreaking number of children who will be homeless this Christmas
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The new homes where young people can gain independence
Greater Manchester News
The project will contribute to fighting homelessness among care leavers.
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Homeless families from London are being 'dumped' in Manchester, MPs told
Hidden homeless
'We're spending lots of money on these families for crap outcomes'
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The children with nowhere to call home
Homelessness
SPECIAL REPORT: One in 30 kids are stuck in temporary accommodation across the city. They're at risk of 'falling behind their peers' and suffering trauma that 'stays with them for life'. Stephen Topping and Declan Carey report.
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After 14 years of Tory rule, is Manchester any Greater?
Politics
Ahead of the general election on July 4, the Manchester Evening News looks back at the big moments in Greater Manchester over the last 14 years and how the lives of people here - and the city itself - have changed since the Conservatives first came to power
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'I could lose everything': The desperate woman turned away from HUNDREDS of houses
Homelessness
“A lot of landlords don’t like taking people on benefits. The way things are I can’t blame them"
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'It’s horrible out here... we moved as people were smoking spice' - Waking up on on the streets of Manchester on Christmas Day
Homelessness
“It’s Christmas Day, we want to be together.”
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'Suicide rate will go up' if homeless people banned from using tents, Manchester charities warn
Manchester City Centre
Manchester has seen a 42 percent rise in homelessness in the past year
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A new emergency has been declared in Greater Manchester
Homelessness
Campaigners say too many are becoming 'locked out' of a pricey private rented sector
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Against all odds, homelessness is falling in Manchester
Manchester
After a huge spike in homelessness, the figures are finally falling
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A thousand single mums have no home to call their own
Hidden homeless
At the end of last year more than 1,100 single mothers in Manchester found themselves stuck in temporary accommodation
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“A cold doorway or a grotty hostel is not a home” - last year more than 11,000 were homeless in Greater Manchester
Homelessness
Experts at Shelter say they are bracing for a spike in homelessness.
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"Surely it's cheaper on booking.com": the high costs of housing families in B&Bs
Greater Manchester News
Manchester council spends millions on housing families in B&Bs
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Rats everywhere and a sex offender in the bathroom - a homeless mum's journey through a broken system
Hidden homeless
SPECIAL REPORT: Kim presented as homeless to Manchester council in August. In three months she lived in seven different properties - with an alcoholic and a sex offender as neighbours in one of them
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