It took three visits from the bailiffs before Khadijah Kamara decided she wanted to tell her story. Sometime later, she answered the door to a member of Acorn, a community union with a branch in Brighton, England, where she lives. ‘We ended up talking for one or two hours,’ she says.
Kamara explains that she has been struggling to deal with debt, unable to work due to multiple health issues. She says she fell behind on payments of council tax, which is charged to all households in England, Scotland and Wales as a way for local authorities to raise money.
