Faultlines: Eight-hour school runs and kids too hungry to sleep - the families caught up in housing 'social cleansing'

It's an icy cold December morning outside a Travelodge in Enfield, north London, when we first meet Nedret Batir. She's wearing a T-shirt, but seems oblivious to the temperature - only consumed with her obvious and immediate distress. Everything she owns, along with her two daughters' possessions, are packed up into suitcases in the corridor of the hotel. She has just been evicted from her room and is now officially homeless.

By the time we reach their school, because of terrible traffic, and missing another bus, it is nearing 11am, or, as Eda says, 'nearly playtime'. None of these families, on low incomes, can find affordable private rentals, even when they do - it's hard to act fast enough to secure them, such is the market. A leaflet from Enfield Council explains the 'severe shortage of accommodation for private rent' in London and the region.

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