We haven't been able to pay rent for five months. Next month we'll be on the street.

Delays with universal credit have compounded the problem, pushing people into rent arrears and putting them at risk of losing their homes. And the retrenchment of services such as mental health and drug rehabilitation means that vulnerable people are more likely to find themselves on the street.

But to work "on the street" is clearly quite different from "working the street."

Indeed, the contribution of study abroad to significant language gains is commonly believed to derive from the numerous opportunities program participants have to engage in first-hand language practice on "the street", in restaurants, in shops, in the homes of native speaker friends and acquaintances as well as a variety of other out-of-class environments in which students find themselves while living in-country.

'We took five years of strategy development before we put a single thing on the street,' Slutkin said.

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