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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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Nuria Chengus: A Woman in Her Early 60s

In the summer of 2011, a woman called Nuria Chengus climbed out of her wheelchair and put a sign in her window. It read: I've got a notice, I'm going to be evicted next Thursday. So on Wednesday night,I'm going to kill myself. No one really knew anyone on this housing project like Councilor State, anywhere in Britain. But they saw this sign in a window and they started to knock on her door. And she shut the door in their faces. People who had never spoken before were all pissed off because their rents were going up as well. They felt like this was coming for them too. Tanya Gartner came up with an

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