Needy families in limbo as Britain struggles with housing shortage
More than 78,000 households are on the verge of homelessness and in need of temporary accommodation
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IN A CRAMPED apartment in an industrial zone in south London, Sandra Rumkiene recounts her struggles to bring up a baby as one of a growing number of poor families forced to live in temporary housing.
Lorries race past Ms Rumkiene's building at all hours and the 84 apartments, housed in a chilly converted office rented by the state through a private landlord, is near a waste plant whose stench wafts in.
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