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People's 🏢 Housing experiences

I live in a busy residential are which is a mixture of both private and social housing. It’s very busy and noisy but that doesn’t bother us...

Wheely bin day tomorrow. Bin already full when I moved in...

🍳 Getting by

I'm quite lucky because I know you had moved on just two years ago so I have a large from garden with real ins and I have a good back garden with a swing set for my daughter and my son and the weather last year was brilliant...

💛 Health + disability

I'm really lucky where we live. We have a garden, although that's my access to...

🕺 Keeping healthy

🕰 Lockdown, rules, and social distancing

I live on the outskirts of the small town of approximately 70,000 people. I live on a housing estate made up of privately-owned and socially rented homes as determined by the colour of your front door; white for private, black for socially rented...

💛 Health + disability

🕰 Lockdown, rules, and social distancing

Stressful and hard and exhausting. I felt so alone in the world and that’s a heavy load mentally...

🍳 Getting by

I’m so sorry I thought I had answered this question. During lockdown I was living with my daughter due to building work on my home...

I am live in E3 area. The area is generally good and green...

I live in an affluent town near Braemar. Its beautiful with the seaside, a castle and woods with history...

🌦 Politics & stigma

I live in the middle of an industrialised part of London. It is one of the small pockets of housing in the area...

💸 Money + debt

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🕺 Keeping healthy 30 🗳 Benefits 336 🎄 Christmas 108 🌷 Spring 7 🍞 Food / food banks 181 🤹 Parenting 134 🔮 Hopes + fears 121 Cost of Living 59 🌦 Politics & stigma 267 Care 7 🚀 Future 30 🏢 Housing 53 Children's wellbeing 184 Utilities 116 Summer 11 👥 Covid Realities 88 🚧 Work 141 ⛑ Support 108 😷 Covid-19 168 💛 Health + disability 121 🌦 Mental health 226 🏫 School 142 Bereavement 12 👦 Single parenting 77 🧒 Children 147 Politics 24 🕰 Lockdown, rules, and social distancing 385 😷 Testing and vaccines 50 ❓ Questions for other parents 5 🥰 Lovely moments 61 💸 Money + debt 258 🍳 Getting by 338 ❄️ Winter 66 👧 Relationships 53 🔙 2020 - looking back 18

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