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Made homeless while my baby had meningitis

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Please help us if you can. Whilst my baby girl was in hospital with meningitis, our landlord evicted us and we are living in a Travel Lodge. On Wednesday, they are kicking us out, and we will all be on the streets.


Hi,

My name is Billie Ann. I am a single mum of 3 children, aged 11, 4, and 5 months old.

I lived in my private rented house in Biddulph for 7 years. It was a small terraced house, and needed work, but the landlord had no interest in us, or the house. There was a window at the back that was broken, it never closed. It was open 24/7 and there's no way to close it. The electrics were dodgy all the way through the house so we didnt use some rooms. The upstairs door fell off the hinges and nearly flattened one of the kids. However, this got much worse when there was a huge leak one night which made the ceiling of the living room collapse, and ruined our floor, furniture, belongings and the ceiling was left with a large hole. You could put your foot through the floor into the hole, and it made the house extremely dangerous for the kids. I was pregnant at the time with my youngest daughter, too.








The water ruined the living room, but the landlord told the letting agency he 'wasn't interested in getting it repaired' and they told me it wasnt urgent, so it was left like that. I couldn't believe they would do this and so i paid for a basic repair myself which cost hundreds of pounds, and i told the letting agency that i would not be paying the rent until they fixed all the damage to the house (they never did).

I dont know whether it was stress, or something else, but I started having seizures. My pregnancy was getting further along, and I was getting more and more unwell. I still need to have investigations about what is causing the seizures but they haven't stopped yet.

When I eventually gave birth to my baby daughter on the 14th July 2022, I was sent text messages from the letting agency saying that they were evicting me and my children. I tried to explain that I was in hospital giving birth, but they didn't care.

If that wasn't bad enough, my baby girl was born and contracted Meningitis. She was extremely ill and the doctors told us she might die. She had 15% chance of survival. It was the most devastating and terrifying thing i had ever been through.




We were in the hospital with my baby daughter for weeks, and then they told us to go home, but that she would need daily injections of antibiotics into each thigh, to try to clear the meningitis. The hospital were supposed to send nurses to our home every day, but no one turned up. They told me I would have to get a taxi 15 miles back to the hospital once per day, every 24 hours, for her to have the injections for two weeks. The cost was so high, as the taxis were costing £40 per day, and the hospital said there were no funds to support me. I used all of my money on the taxis, terrified that if i didnt, my baby would become ill again from the meningitis and maybe die.

Whilst all of this was going on, the landlord got an order of possession and started action to evict us. I didnt understand the letter and I was so stressed about my baby daughter and the impact it was all having on my other two children (in the pictures), that I didn't take it in. I thought, there is no way they could make us all homeless. I tried to just keep paying the rent, and hoped they would stop, but they didnt.

I got a court summons, but I was up and down to the hospital for the injections every single day, and didn't see it in time, I didnt understand it when I did find the letter, and I couldnt sleep, eat or even think about anything other than my baby pulling through.

The court ruled in the Landlord's favour and we lost our house. We were evicted and given 30 days to leave the house. I rang for help, to housing teams, social workers, support workers, charities, friends and family but no one listened to me. People saw me as if I had brought this upon myself.

I didnt have a way of taking all of our belongings with us, so we took the basics and were put in a Travel Lodge by the social worker, and we were told that Housing would find us somewhere to live. The Travel Lodge is miles away, it is not near the kids schools, and we are isolated. I do not have a car. The kids are tired from travelling miles to school every day, and living in a travel lodge room.

The Travel Lodge have confiscated my microwave that I need to sterilise my baby bottles. I don't have anything left, and I am asking for help as we are now facing an even worse situation.

The housing team have said that because I didnt pay the rent because of the damage, I made myself 'intentionally homeless' and they won't house me until I pay off at least £2000 of the rent and court costs. They said they have already covered their duty of care to us, and they are kicking us out of Travel Lodge on Wednesday morning (30th November).

My social worker and family support worker have argued with them, but they are not listening. We had another meeting with them on Monday and they are still refusing to help us until I find a way to pay down the costs. I do not have any money at all, and the only chance I have now, is this fund raiser.



I have been evicted due to with-holding my rent a few times. Now this isn’t because I blew the money, it was a case of issues going on in my house that the landlord wouldn’t see to so I had to deal with it myself. It was either I don’t get food in for my children or use my rent money, a no brainer really.

Now fast forward my relationship breaking down then giving birth to my daughter who got really poorly with bronchitis then contracted meningitis, it was at this time I was given my eviction notice. I feel I have tried absolutely everything to try and get something sorted but I’m hitting brick wall time and time again.

Anybody that knows me knows my children are my entire world and I will not see them have their world tipped upside down so I am writing this in a bid for help. At this point my pride does not matter so please if anyone has any advice, knows of any houses available or could donate to this fund raiser, please help us.

We have until Wednesday 30th November.

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