General Article A personal story of hidden homelessness and its circular relationship with mental health

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Homelessness is such an everyday injustice that it becomes normalised, figuring as a morality tale of mistakes made and consequences for the workshy or deviant. A dismal reality that is easily disregarded through a quick averting of gaze or a half-hearted fumbling through your pockets only to reply, ‘Sorry, mate’. However, in reality for most of us, homelessness is too close for comfort, as it is potentially only a few bills and months away, or as Amelia’s story shows is often connected to th...

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