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James Rodger & Chloe Burrell

Mum paying £700 a month to live in tent because she can't get house

A woman is paying £700 a month to live in a tent - and says she cannot afford to live anywhere else.

The woman, named Megan, states that her experience is "absolutely horrible".

Her plight was highlighted by a news channel, while she was living in a tent amid a housing crisis in Adelaide, Australia, Birmingham Live reports.

Megan lives in a tent for around £700 a month at the caravan park and says she was forced into the situation due to the housing crisis in South Australia.

The mum-of-one said: "I never ever thought I would be in this situation, it's been absolutely horrible.

"Everything keeps going up, how are people going to survive? The homelessness just gets worse and worse."

She says she has been lost in a system which currently sees 16,000 people waiting for homes.

The single mum was knocked back by 40 private rental applications. So she has been paying $300 a week - around £175 - for a patch of grass at a caravan park.

South Australia's Human Services Minister Nat Cook said: "In the first week of coming into office we had 1,500 emails." Her tragic story was highlighted by 9news and mirrors a tough Cost of Living crisis in the UK currently.

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