BY ANDREW MOODY Yesterday was the 76th anniversary of the D Day landings. I have been on the Ward since last November, before that, in the Unit in Glasgow since last August. This is the longest stretch I’ve done since I started in on the psych game aged 19 in 2002. One of the patients… Read More Thoughts from Lockdown
BY IAN (Outreach Worker, Tiverton) The initial results of a survey by the UCL Collaborative Centre for Inclusion Health reveal the coronavirus death rate of homeless people living in London’s hostels is 25 times higher than the general adult population. It found that 38% of hostels in the capital had suspected Covid-19 cases, with 41%… Read More Homeless Hit Hard by Coronavirus
BY ANDREW MOODY The first time I was homeless, I openly slept in parks in East London, dehydrated and exhausted from sleep deprivation. The second time I was homeless, that wasn’t an option: I’d have been murdered. Once you’ve been homeless enough times, you have to be streetwise, or else you’re dead. Luckily for me… Read More Down & Out in London
BY THE CHAIRMAN In Part 1, I explained that the wrong people were at the cutting edge of dealing with the Homelessness problem in Britain. That we should seek to eradicate the problem and not exacerbate it. I promised solutions. So here they are (all based on the gentle enforcement by the authorities of rough-sleeping… Read More Eradicating Homelessness Continued
