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Have you been evicted from rental housing in the UK?

A 14-year-old girl asked housing activists to help prevent her grandmother, mother and two sisters from being evicted from a housing estate in south London
A 14-year-old girl asked housing activists to help prevent her grandmother, mother and two sisters from being evicted from a housing estate in south London Photograph: Thabo Jaiyesimi/Demotix/Corbis

The number of tenants evicted from their homes is at a six-year high, according to new figures, as rising rents and cuts to benefits make tenancies increasingly unaffordable. Have you been evicted from rental housing? We’d like to hear your experiences.

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