Friday, 22 December 2017

Sofa surfers: The young hidden homeless - BBC News

Sofa surfers: The young hidden homeless - BBC News

Sam, 23, sitting on bench
Image captionSam: "It takes pretty much every day of my life, trying to find out where I am going to be staying"
Sam does not know where he will be sleeping tonight. 
Now 23, he says he first became homeless at 15 because of a family breakdown and has been in and out of bedsits, hostels and supported accommodation ever since. 
"I've stayed at friends' in the past - I've never really had my own actual flat," he says. 
"I've slept rough quite a few times but most of the time when I've slept rough I have not actually slept. 
"I just wander round because I can't really shut off when I'm out in the cold."

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