Anna lived in a two-bedroomed apartment in Dublin 6 with eight other young women for three months. Her reaction to "kipping on the floor for the summer" was "great, cheap rent". There were just four single beds in the house, the rest she said, slept on cushions and one had a campbed.

For two weeks they had five others who stayed while looking for somewhere else. Anna always knew it was only temporary, it was easy to find, and it was great craic. "The more the merrier was our attitude," she admits. She thinks that the landlord "sort of had an idea" but the situation was never openly argued with him because they knew how to avoid it. When he came around to collect the rent she says that everyone had to hide themselves and their belongings.

She says she would never live in cramped conditions again if she was in a proper job - that summer though she wasn't, so it didn't matter. Although it was cheap (£13 each a week), fun, lively and brilliant, there was a downside to the set-up: there was a smell, it was messy, and "kind of unhealthy". Despite this she says that people really stuck it out for the money.