‘I was a pandemic hero – now the housing crisis has forced to live in a caravan’

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For carer and cleaner Kirsty Brett, ‘extortionate’ asking prices for housing rents meant she had to find other ways of living outside the parents’ home

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For two years, Kirsty Brett searched for a flat in the Essex town of Canvey Island.