Homeless mum forced to make boiled eggs in the toilet to feed kids in 'horrific' hotel

Single mum Michelle Kerr, 40, was placed successful B&B accommodation with her 3 children - but said their acquisition was 'dreadful' and meant they often had to cheque retired from the hotel

A homeless mum said she was forced to marque boiled eggs successful the bath to provender her 3 children portion surviving successful a edifice successful "horrific" conditions.

Michelle Kerr, 40, was made stateless aft her backstage fto was repossessed by a mortgage lender from her landlord. Since she had obscurity to go, she was placed successful B&B accommodation - but said it was "dreadful" arsenic she was forced to provender her kids conscionable with a kettle, making meals specified arsenic eggs oregon noodles, oregon thing that could beryllium boiled.

She besides explained her family's dignity was wrecked by the request to cheque retired of the edifice each 4 days – waiting connected the pavement extracurricular until they were cleared to cheque successful again. The erstwhile NHS idiosyncratic said: "I'm not amazed to spot the fig of families being stuck successful these hotels and B&Bs is going up.

"I was continually told that determination was obscurity other to retired me. It's similar a conveyor belt, moving on 1 household and moving different household in, with everyone hoping for a decent location wherever they tin yet consciousness safe. It feels similar an intolerable dream."

Michelle said she had to beryllium connected a edifice country toilet portion cooking boiled eggs and noodles, arsenic she didn't privation steam from the kettle to acceptable disconnected the occurrence alarm. She told the Daily Record: "We were meant to beryllium staying astatine the edifice for 7 days, which is seemingly the longest they are meant to support a household successful hotels.

"But it dragged connected for 3 weeks. It was dreadful due to the fact that I person a girl with peculiar needs and I was being forced to provender the kids with conscionable a kettle. To debar mounting disconnected the fume detector I had to beryllium connected the toilet portion making boiled eggs with the boiled h2o from the kettle. Then it was noodles, thing you could boil." The azygous mum said it was degrading to beryllium asked to vacate her country respective times by the edifice managers, which resulted successful her and the kids being stuck connected the thoroughfare earlier having to cheque successful again.

She said: "We were lone getting booked successful for 4 days astatine a time, arsenic the assembly was perpetually scanning for longer-term accommodation. We had to battalion our bags, determination retired and hold connected the street. It was horrific. Eventually idiosyncratic astatine the assembly would corroborate the ongoing backing – but successful the meantime, we weren't allowed to hold successful a room. " Michelle and her kids went connected to unrecorded successful 5 antithetic impermanent homes successful 18 months.

Government figures released earlier this twelvemonth showed that arsenic of September 2023 determination were 109,000 households successful impermanent accommodation successful the state - up 3.0 per cent from the erstwhile 4th and up 10.3 per cent from the aforesaid clip past year. The fig of azygous households successful impermanent accommodation roseate 4.3 per cent from the erstwhile 4th and 6.0 per cent from the aforesaid clip past twelvemonth to 39,320.