She's been told she could wait a decade before securing a new home.
Every day, Emma Paul has to carry her severely disabled son Leo up the stairs to go to the bathroom as he can’t climb them himself.
It affects his mobility, development, muscle tone and eyesight problems. The schoolboy is non-verbal, has to be fed via a tube and, at his worst, has up to 70 seizures a day. But last summer, her landlord revealed he wanted to sell the two-bed terrace she has lived in for the past 12 years. With more than a million households in England stuck on a social hosing waiting list and fewer than 7,000 social homes built last year – the crisis gripping the country is unlikely to vanish any time soon.
‘When they fished a little further about the nature of my son’s disability and they’d seen he’s a wheelchair user, they said they couldn’t let this out to me because it has a step to the front door and it has stairs up to the bedroom.
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