INVESTIGATION: Britain’s hidden homeless children
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In 2024 Britain nearly 140,000 kids are homeless. Just because you don’t see them on the street doesn’t mean they’re not there. This is Britain’s temporary accommodation crisis, one which is worsening.
Temporary accommodation was once a safe harbour for a few days, a week, a month or so at most.
Now, thanks to rocketing rents and inadequate housing supply, more and more families find a single room in a hotel or accommodation block their permanent home.
In this latest News Agents Investigates series, Lewis hits to road to find out just how big a problem it is, where it comes from and why so many working class kids may find themselves ruined by forces outside their control.
Producer: Laura FitzPatrick
Video Production: Rory Symon
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:07.7 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.0 | This is The Newsagents Investigates. |
| 0:19.1 | The 18th of this month will make me two years staying in a hotel. |
| 0:23.6 | It's hard. |
| 0:24.6 | It's one room for all of us, really hard as we've got school and a baby. |
| 0:29.6 | You have one room with the four of us in there. |
| 0:32.6 | It's very difficult. |
| 0:34.6 | We are living in a single room and I don't know where they're going to send me if I got to our house. |
| 0:41.3 | We're there for seven months now and they don't even tell you anything. |
| 0:47.3 | If I go, obviously will be homeless with four kids. |
| 0:53.3 | But if I stay still, it's compromising my work and my studies. |
| 0:58.0 | I didn't want to come. |
| 0:59.9 | I really didn't want to come. |
| 1:02.4 | But I have no choice. |
| 1:05.0 | Every day, I always be crying because it's difficult. |
| 1:10.4 | We don't know anything. It's hard. Could you live with your whole |
| 1:15.8 | family in a single room? Maybe with a shared kitchen which you share with a few other families, |
| 1:21.5 | maybe a shared bathroom too. How long could you do it for? A day, a week, a month? How long could you go by before you could |
| 1:29.7 | seriously think of it as home? Could you ever? |
| 1:35.3 | More and more of our fellow citizens in Britain are having to do just that. We all know there's a |
| 1:41.2 | housing crisis. We should know that it's probably the biggest political policy failure of the British |
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