Everyone is two pay cheques away from homelessness
‘We are all two pay cheques away from homelessness’ is not justified by the evidence.
The analysis from a study by Bramley and Fitzpatrick in 2017 underlines the odds of experiencing it are systematically structured around a set of identifiable individual, social and structural factors, for example poverty, especially in childhood and also demonstrating the impact of labour and housing market conditions, demographic, personal and social support characteristics. Care leavers are one group who are more likely to become homeless.
I was brought up in care and given shared accommodation. I was young and lost the property. I slept rough for a month.
Paul:
I was brought up in care and given shared accommodation. I was young and lost the property. I slept rough for a month.
St Paul’s has helped me get off my arse. Before I would sit around smoking weed all day but now I work in the kitchen as a chef. This gives me a purpose to get up in the morning.
My dream is to get a full time job, a house and build a family.
Don’t stereotype people and don’t judge a book by its cover.