More than 200,000 families and individuals across Britain are experiencing hidden homelessness, a 30% rise since 2020, according to new research from the charity Crisis and Heriot-Watt University. Crisis defines the hidden homeless as people dealing with their situation informally – and who aren’t included in official statistics – for instance by living in cars or sheds, sheltering in industrial buildings or sleeping on friends’ sofas. Maria, now 53, arrived in the UK in 2001 from Spain, working as a hospital cleaner before getting a degree in London, and then being employed by the NHS as a healthcare assistant for the next two decades.
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