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Homeless in London? Here's a train ticket for Birmingham
The plight of a mother and daughter forced to live in a hotel room 127 miles from their former home in the capital
Aisha in the Birmingham hotel room she has shared with her daughter for the past month.
When Aisha was evicted from her flat in East Ham, east London, on 15 April, she packed her belongings in a
suitcase and went with her six-year-old daughter to the council's housing office in Stratford, hoping for help
to find somewhere else to stay in the area.
Instead she was given a train ticket to Birmingham, and details of how to take the bus from the station to
the Bailey hotel in Edgbaston, a hotel providing emergency accommodation 127 miles away.
For the past month, she has been sharing a double bed with her daughter in a room scarcely bigger than
the bed, living out of the suitcase, and surviving mainly on cold snack food from the corner shop because
it is hard to get access to the hotel's kitchen, which has just one stove - four hotplates - shared between
residents of the hotel's 25 rooms.
The Bailey hotel is currently home to six families from Newham, moved out of London by a council that is
in the grip of a severe housing crisis.