By Liz McClarnon BBC ONE's Real Story

Three weeks ago my family was told my great grandmother Rachel was being evicted from her care home in Liverpool.

Lyndhurst is a lovely home. My mum and auntie worked there and I had a Saturday job there as a teenager - but the owners say they simply cannot afford to stay open.

It is the second home Len and Joan Collins have closed down in the last six months. BBC ONE's Real Story was with them when they closed down their other care home, Erlscote, just next door.

Joan says they had to close both homes because they were not getting enough money from social services to care for their residents.

National problem

She told me: "Unfortunately we have to close because it just wasn't viable.

'"But I've nursed the elderly in this city for 25 years and I'm just devastated at the way they're being treated."

When Erlscote closed in February we heard that some residents had not coped well with the move - and the subsequent deaths of five residents has been a great worry to my family.

Clara Dudley went to Downing Street to keep her home open

It is a national problem. The majority of care homes in the UK are privately run and 70% of residents in private care are funded by their local authority.

The Independent Healthcare Association says there is a gap of �80 to �100 per person per week between what councils are paying and what the care actually costs.

Joe Campbell, of the campaigning organisation English Care, told me homes are so badly underfunded because no-one knows how much it costs to produce care.

"There have been so many costs heaped upon the care industry which are not reflected by increases in the fees given for council - referred patients and residents," he said.

Television campaign

A list of care home standards introduced by the government increased the financial pressure on care homes. Although the rules were relaxed earlier this year, many regulations still apply, such as those affecting staff training and the minimum wage.

I was shocked when I heard that 1100 places disappear every month.

As part of my campaign to highlight these issues, I asked Real Story viewers to write in with their own experiences.

Hundreds of care home residents, their families and staff contacted the programme with their concerns.

Stanley Harber died two months after hearing his home would close

Sadly, many of them have lost relatives.

When Stanley Harber was told his home in Devon had to close his daughter-in-law Susan told us he became very depressed. She believes this lead to his death - just two months after the announcement.

Vivien Waters died nine months after being moved from his nursing home in Surrey. He was moved because the owners could not afford to make changes needed to meet new standards on nursing care. His daughter Sylvia said he never settled into his new home.

Margaret Haggerty is one of six residents who has died since Delamere House in St Helens closed down in May.

We don't know which home they're going to land up in, what it's going to be like or whether that home will close Joan Collins Care home owner

We also heard from homes owners who are fighting for more funding.

The owner of the Lakes in Tameside, Greater Manchester took his local council to court and won after it refused to pay an extra �10 per person a week for a small group of his residents with special nursing needs.

Jack says his victory is just the beginning. He has got together with six other care homes in the area to take Tameside Council back to court for more money for all their residents.

Council-run homes are also closing down. In Hastings, 86-year-old Clara Dudley, who is deaf, partially sighted and has had a series of strokes, is leading a campaign to keep her home open.

'Powerless'

Sussex County Council is turning her home into a re-habiliation centre to ease bed-blocking in the NHS. They have been given �1m by the government to get elderly people back into their own homes more quickly after a hospital stay.

To fight her eviction, Clara took the council to court twice and went to Downing Street with a petition.

Her daughter Norma told me: "I think she wanted to feel listened to and feel that she could do something because she's felt very powerless."

Their petition came to nothing and their court cases have failed - but Clara and Norma are not giving up. They are taking their case to the European Court of Human rights. Sadly, the home may have closed by the time the case is heard.

At my gran's old care home in Liverpool the residents are now leaving every day. Understandably, Joan is really worried.

"They are turfed out into the streets. We don't know which home they're going to land up in, what it's going to be like or whether that home will close. It's just abominable the way they're being treated."

My great-gran has been in her new home for three weeks now. I just hope that she adapts well to her new surroundings.

Real Story: Monday 4 August at 1930 BST on BBC ONE and the Real Story website.