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11 Aug 2018

Homeless in Athens pushed deep into poverty after bailouts end

Social Affairs Editor and Presenter

Sky high taxes, plummeting pensions and swingeing austerity cuts – that’s the price Greece is paying as it ends eight years of international bailouts.

The strict terms and conditions imposed to deal with the debt crisis have cost the country. Especially those who’ve been made homeless.

Now, some of them have set up an alternative tour around central Athens to show the scale of the crisis.