How mum joined ‘rising number of hidden homeless’ after fleeing with daughter
"The bags were mainly my daughter's clothes and her dolls."Having left after feeling threatened, she chose the seaside town where they had been on summer and half term holidays, although it meant leaving her family and friends behind."I wanted to go somewhere that wasn't very alien for my daughter," said Jodie, now 42. "It was still scary, but I had to be the strong one and protect her. I had to do it so that my daughter could have a life."After a brief stay in council emergency accommodation, she said they spent a year sleeping on the sofas and floors of people she had met in Margate.
- ▪"The bags were mainly my daughter's clothes and her dolls."Having left after feeling threatened, she chose the seaside town where they had been on summer and half term holidays, although it meant leaving her family and friends behind."I wan
- ▪"It was still scary, but I had to be the strong one and protect her.
- ▪I had to do it so that my daughter could have a life."After a brief stay in council emergency accommodation, she said they spent a year sleeping on the sofas and floors of people she had met in Margate.
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'We had to flee with just my daughter's clothes and dolls'Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, A charity says hidden homelessness is rising as rents go upByJoshua AskewSouth EastPublished8 August 2026, 07:02 BSTUpdated Just nowWhen Jodie and her daughter had to flee their hometown, they could only take what they could carry - two black bin bags filled with their belongings.Jodie, then aged 30, found herself in Margate, Kent, with a seven-year-old child to take care of and no place to live."I had to leave everything," Jodie said.
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