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Homeless mother's supporters occupy Southwark town hall

A DISABLED mother made homeless by Southwark Council won justice yesterday after activists took over the local town hall to support her demands for social housing.

Dozens of housing campaigners staged a sit-in at the council’s headquarters after bosses refused to give a former Aylesbury Estate tenant emergency housing when she went into arrears.

Security and police were called to the site — but the two-hour demonstration was brought to an end when the council’s head of community engagement Stephen Douglass agreed to find the woman, named only as Ruth, a house.

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