David Harvey is a tough-looking dad from Oldham. But the minute he receives a phone call at a cafe on Shaw high street - he breaks down.
Tears gather in his eyes as he passes on the message to his girlfriend Lianne, his stepson Cody and his two-year-old Elliot. “They’re throwing us out,” he said.
And almost in the same breath: “I can’t go back there.” The family has been living in temporary accommodation at a hotel for two weeks.
The stay, organised by the council, has been a short respite from their living conditions at home, at a privately rented two-bedroom house in Shaw.
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