A homeless single mum and her four-year-old son have been stuck in a cramped hostel bedroom for almost a year. Olivia McClelland, 22, has been bidding on council houses for more than 18 months without luck because she was always in a queue behind 200 to 3,000 people deemed a higher priority.
The Birmingham mum and son Noah have spent both national coronavirus lockdowns living in a 3x4ft room in a homeless family shelter and they are desperate to move into a home of their own with more space.
They have been given hope that they may be in their own place in time for Christmas, which would be the "best present", after Olivia was given higher priority and she received the phone call she had been waiting for, BirminghamLive reports.