Lela suffered a minor electric shock while she was taking a shower. When an electrician told her that it wasn’t safe for her and her daughter to remain in their home, Lela’s landlord evicted them. Lela says, “Nobody wants to rent to you when you’re unemployed, and I’d been homeless for a while before eventually finding this place. I hadn’t made a huge fuss about the mould on the bedroom wall. I’d helped out when the basement of the block flooded with raw sewage. Suddenly, we’ve got to leave. It’s a sixth-floor flat with no lift, so you don’t really want to be moving, even if I did have somewhere to go.” Lela was turned down for local authority help, because they said that she had made herself ‘intentionally homeless.’