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Today in Focus

Surviving Britain’s homelessness crisis

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Journalist Daniel Lavelle on his experience of homelessness and what it taught him about the impact of government cuts. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:07.8

Today, the journalist Danny Levelle

0:10.4

are living through homelessness

0:12.6

and what the government should learn

0:14.6

from experiences like his.

0:16.6

I was 26. I was living in a small flat in Greater Manchester.

0:35.8

And it was right at the end of my degree.

0:38.4

And for a month, I'd been abusing alcohol

0:43.0

and living quite her mythic lifestyle.

0:45.0

And for lots of complicated reasons, I ended up in a race.

0:49.5

And then one day, I just decided to leave my flat

0:54.4

and take a tent and live on a bridal path.

0:58.0

It was 2013 when Danny Levelle found himself alone,

1:04.2

homeless and facing his first night sleeping rough.

1:08.4

It was early evening.

1:12.8

I could hear the wind rustling through the trees

1:15.6

and rain drops bouncing lightly off my nylon roof.

1:19.6

I didn't have many things with me.

1:21.3

Just a change of clothes in my phone.

1:24.8

And I was just quite an ether-tie-tie-to-the-hole thing.

1:28.4

Really, I just thought something like this was always going to happen to me.

1:33.1

Life was coming hard at Danny.

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