"THEY think because you've got a roof over your head everything is ok, but it's not." Passed from one damp house to another, Shauna, a pregnant single mother, can barely remember what it feels like to have a safe and secure roof over her family's head.
When the M.E.N. spoke to her earlier this year, she and her daughter had both had chest infections, and she was terrified to bring her unborn baby back to her mould-infested house in Newton Heath.
Increasingly, more women like Shauna are now relying on temporary accommodation, as they are priced out of decent, affordable housing. She is one of more than 1,100 single mothers in Manchester who had no home to call their own in winter.
According to new government data on homelessness, between October and December last year, 1,106 single females with dependant children were living in temporary housing in the city. That was a 12 per cent rise from 2021, more than double the national average of five per cent.
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