Voicebox: Homelessness

Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT) are hosting a unique sleepout to raise funds for a The Clock Tower Sanctuary, a charity that supports homeless young people in Brighton.

Many councils and the government have begun huge campaigns to supposedly ‘crackdown’ on the homeless and eliminate homelessness from this country. What is the human cost?

London has a housing crisis, yet every new-build housing development that goes up treats addressing the situation as an afterthought.

How can someone who has a roof over their head be considered homeless? The underrepresented temporarily homeless culture that is rampant in our communities but no one is talking about.

“We are doing this to feed the homeless, not to feed egos.”

My three hours of volunteering left me feeling warm and fulfilled - did I do it for myself or to actually help others?

In the UK homelessness is an ongoing issue with 64,960 homeless assessments being made between April and June 2018, so to reduce the number of the homeless Crisis, a national charity for homeless people, are tackling the issue with help from volunteers, campaigners and the wider public. By supporting Crisis someone can leave homelessness for good.  

“We’ve got a humanitarian crisis on our hands” - Invisible Voices

There are certain stigmas surrounding homeless people that dictate how the rest of society treats them. These are outdated, callous, and hypocritical, and we should do better

We use the term homeless to describe those we see sleeping rough on the streets. Homelessness is a bigger issue than what we understand and the road to homelessness is not as simple as some of us might think.

19-year-old Georgia shares her experience of being homeless in the most expensive city in the UK.