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One pay packet away from the streets: the workers who became homeless in the pandemic
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Heavy rain soaked Grace’s clothes as she huddled in the doorway of an empty building in Derbyshire. Just weeks before, the 57-year-old had been a care worker, looking after vulnerable adults with severe learning disabilities. But she had lost her home, and then her job after her boyfriend’s violence escalated.
The pair had been together for five years. “I was in love,” she says. “I thought this was it. But then things changed, and I think it was because he didn’t want me there any more.”
Her partner became physically and verbally abusive and played psychological games. “He’d put my shoes on the other side of the room. I’d leave, make a cup of tea, come back, and they’d be obviously not where I left them, and he’d say I was imagining things,”
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