A friend agreed to put her up for a while and then her luck changed.
She visited Connexions in Middlesbrough where she met Carlos Dos Santos, a youth worker running a project that gives free legal advice to young people. "I told him my father was racist and I needed somewhere to live," she recalls.
Priority housing
Unbeknown to Katie, her age qualified her as a priority for housing.
Dos Santos advised her to fill in a homelessness application form with the borough council and to contact other housing providers. "I was scared to do it on my own, but he helped," she says.
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