Over the last two years, homelessness has rocketed – and for many people a job has not been enough to maintain a roof over their head

Heavy rain soaked Grace’s clothes as she huddled in the doorway of an empty building in Derbyshire. Just weeks before, the 57-year-old had been a care worker, looking after vulnerable adults with severe learning disabilities. But she had lost her home, and then her job after her boyfriend’s violence escalated.

The pair had been together for five years. “I was in love,” she says. “I thought this was it. But then things changed, and I think it was because he didn’t want me there any more.”

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