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 the chances of our own personal throw of the dice and being incapacitated by mental ill-health.
Rough sleeping has been on the rise in recent years; stats published this week by the Office for National Statistics revealed that rough sleeping for a single night in England increased 168.7% from 2010 to a height in 2017, only to decrease slightly in 2018 and 2019 and then to dramatically decrease in 2020 by 43.4% from the 2017 peak.
The 2020 estimate suggests that the government’s £3.2 million ‘Every...
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