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🛑 My name is Sophie. I’m 33 and I live in Manchester. I rent a basement flat from an elderly couple. It’s not really a flat — it’s a proper damp basement. £580 a month, all bills included. Every morning when I get up at five to go to work, the old heating system and pipes start rattling like they’re about to explode. The people upstairs are constantly complaining. I’ve told them a thousand times: “It’s not me, it’s the old pipes!” But they still give me dirty looks. The basement is always damp, it smells of mould, and at night I can hear rats scratching behind the walls. I’m terrified of them. I work in the Tesco warehouse in Manchester. Early shift, starts at 6. I used to do 27 hours a week at £11.50 an hour — that came to about £1,300–£1,350 gross a month. Now they’ve cut me down to 20 hours a week. I take home around £980–£1,020 a month. This is what my life looked like before: Basement rent: £580 Monthly travel pass (Zone 1–2): £68 Food: £280 (I try to eat almost no meat) Phone and internet: £28 Everything else (laundry, toiletries, emergencies): £110–£140 Almost nothing was left. I’d come home exhausted, collapse on the bed and just stare at the low ceiling. I’d think: “I’m 33. No savings, no proper home, no future.” The fear was constant — sometimes I could barely breathe. Three weeks ago I hit rock bottom. I didn’t have the money for rent. I stayed shut inside for three days, not going out. Just lying under the duvet. On the third day, Mrs Thompson, the landlady, came down. She knocked and asked if I was okay. I nearly cried right there in front of her. That evening I was scrolling through Facebook in the group “Jobs and Help Manchester”. I saw a post from a girl. She said that three months earlier she’d been in exactly the same situation: debts, threat of eviction. She tried an app and got herself out. At first I thought: “Just another scam.” But I kept going back to the post. I read the comments and checked her profile. In the old photos she looked normal,
