'If we don't get a house soon, we will have to squat.

'I've been told there might not be anything available until Christmas, and we can't wait that long. We'll freeze to death.

'The tent leaks and it is cold. I have to go outside with a little cooker to make food, often in the rain.

'That is not right. I shouldn't have to beg people for baths or to do my washing.'

Lorraine, who suffers from epilepsy and arthritis, claims she was hounded out of their last home in Hastings, East Sussex.

She and her family stayed in a B&B for two years before moving to Maidstone in August to be closer to relatives.

A Maidstone Borough Council spokesman said he could not comment on specific housing applications but admitted there was a 'limited supply' of social housing.

He said: 'We have a responsibility to provide families in priority housing need with emergency accommodation, and whilst they are in temporary accommodation to assess their need.

'If we accept a family on to the housing register, it can take some time to find suitable accommodation depending on their circumstances and availability.'

【资讯快讯】

54岁的英国女子带着五个孩子，四只狗狗，三只鹦鹉，准备搬进政府准备的条件良好，设施完善的安居房。出乎意料地是，安居房的管理人出于卫生和安全的考虑，拒绝宠物入住，要求她在圣诞节前放弃陪伴她的狗狗和鹦鹉后方可入住，可是这位54岁的女子真心不愿意离开陪伴左右，家人一般的狗狗和鹦鹉。因此她带着孩子，狗狗和鹦鹉在朋友家的院子里搭建帐篷住下了。帐篷的生活并不舒适，天气渐凉，帐篷里面很冷，常常漏雨，做饭个人卫生都相当不便。

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