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Research conducted by JRS UK found that around half the destitute asylum seekers it supported had slept rough in the preceding year, with one in five sleeping rough in the preceding month. Most were moving every couple of nights between numerous addresses, sleeping on floors or sofas, or in armchairs. Fear was commonplace; a third said they did not feel comfortable with those they lived with. Sometimes people arrived at the friend’s house where they were expecting to spend the night, only to find the door locked. It was a life of daily precarity.