A dad-of-five who lost his family's privately rented home will have to pay '£200 more' for a council house. James Byrne, 33, says he feels "punished for working" after they were evicted from their £750-a-month rented house, but says the council now want him to pay £920-a-month for their new home.
Mr Byrne, partner Debbie Day, 33, and three kids, 3, 5 and 7, say they were forced to sleep in their car after the council first put them up in two 'hellish' city hotels.
The family even claim they were left "covered in bug bites" in one hotel. But things started to look up for the family when James got a new job at Cadbury and they were given the keys to a three-bed Birmingham City Council property in Kingstanding - where they have been living
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