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Domestic violence is the leading cause of homelessness but there isnât enough affordable housing for families.
Michele Adair, CEO of Housing Trust, has revealed she almost ended up on the street herself with her two children.
Experts say building more social housing, where vulnerable people only pay 25-30% of their income on rent, would also create jobs.
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One day, not long after Michele Adair turned nine, she came home from school to find her young, successful father had died. It had been a sudden and brutal illness, pancreatic cancer striking at 46, but Adair and her brother, even her father himself, had not known that he was dying until there was silence from the bedroom down the hall. He hadnât asked the doctors how long he had, and no one had told the children why he had been in bed the past two months. No one had really wanted to believe it. That afternoon, she came home from school as usual but home had forever changed.