'I honestly don't know where to turn'
Each morning, she wakes and clears her living room floor of the makeshift bed that her and three of her children are forced to sleep on so they can use the little space there is to play. Behind the sofa is used as storage space for clothing with nowhere else to go.
"I try to make it comfy," she said. "I put thick blankets and pillows down. But they need proper beds." Oldham Council told the M.E.N no five-bed socially rented properties have been available in the area since July 2021. Cheryl claims she has been advised to move further out of Manchester for a better chance of successfully bidding on a larger flat. But she feels moving away from her family and support network is 'setting her up to fail'.
"There's so much damp in the flat because I do all my washing and drying here - there's nowhere else I can do it," she said. During the summer the flat is hot, but Cheryl can hardly open her windows. She said she gets complaints from neighbours over her children running around the estate where they live, but in her flat there is no place for them to play.
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