Panorama: Britain's Hidden Homeless Crisis

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NOW!

I hope Kevin's flat mates aren't scary!

Bless Kevin. He just wanted to be safe :(

sorry, I meant, do a DEAL with construction industry

YY, jelly, it's true.

I am so, so glad Kevin got help. As he said, we all need help sometimes.

My family were evicted during the last recession. I was 16 and had a younger siblings. My parents are educated, fairly middle class, moral people. Myself and all of my family have done alright. It wasn't a nice process, long way from it but its turned out ok.

How does a person get into such massive arrears on their council house they get evicted? I thought that was was housing benefit was for?

unmumsnetty hug Vicar

Apparently they didn't provide the paperwork for housing benefit?..

i've been burned in the past too, so now hold very little emotion towards my 'things' as they are just that - tat really - and i now go minimalist and sell so much on ebay so often to keep a safety net. stuff creates problems for me. and I avoid the shops more too...

thank you ifso if it hadnt been for my DH i have no idea what would have happened to me. he let me sleep on his sofa. thats how he became my DH.....

'How does a person get into such massive arrears on their council house they get evicted? I thought that was was housing benefit was for? '

They apparently didn't keep going in with benefit paperwork and respond to court summons.

i hope someone employs kevin soon

I was made homeless when I was in my teens. Council couldn't give a shit as I had a min wage job and under 25.

Her house is still up for sale. Could have rented it back to her and not lost even more money on it. Oh, well.

Could let they not have given Patricia a few months grace.

That poor lady.

Patricia's story is so heart breaking. Barclays should be thoroughly ashamed..!

Just thinking that expat.

this poor family , my heart goes out to them......all their stuff in storage and its like their journey of suffering is just beginning.

And Patricia's story .seems like that should. Never have happened

absolutely Sleepingbunnies

really felt for Patricia. dreadful.

Similarly to Vicar, I was placed in a hostel on my 16th birthday after my mum threw me out. I shared a room with the heroin addict and a DV victim. One week later we all got thrown out because the landlady found the addict's needles. I thank my lucky stars that a friends mum let me sleep on their floor for 6 weeks until I got a bedsit on a young persons homeless project.

I moved out of that City but some years later when I went back I saw the heroin addict selling the big issue on the street. That'll stay with me forever.

I don't really know what my point is, watching programmes like that just bring it all back.

On the other hand I have no doubt that Kevin will be fine . What a lovely honest kind of chap

mmm how well do honest lovely types do in shared flats with strangers though??

I hope he's in with decent types

The single people were really in a bind.