Domestic abusers are pushing victims into spiralling debt and homelessness by weaponising joint mortgages against them - with 750,000 women in the UK estimated to be affected by mortgage abuse.
A study, by the charity Surviving Economic Abuse, has found one in eight women in the UK who had a joint mortgage in the last two years suffered economic abuse over the arrangement from their current or ex-partner.
Abusers are refusing to fork out for their agreed part of the mortgage, agree to new terms, or sell the property.
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