Join us as we meet people sleeping rough across the UK and interrogate why the situation has become so bad 1.16am GMTComes from Perry Gough,37, from Bristol. Just after midnight, and he crawls into his sleeping bag in a nook above a Bristol bowling alley. His evening had consisted of him grabbing a cup of soup from volunteers and then huddling down in the doorway of an RAF recruitment office. In the 14 years he has been homeless following a relationship breakdown Gough has been beaten up and burned. Someone set my hands on fire – they thought it would be a laugh. I feel safe here though now.” “Same worn,same worn every day,” he said. 1.16am GMTThat’s just approximately it for tonight. Thank you for staying with us. If you’re homeless, or I truly hope you find somewhere warm tonight and some toehold in a future that is safe and secure. It’s clear from what we’ve learned tonight that this is not a lifestyle choice,but something that happens to people, often the wretched result of a wicked combination of factors. And it may get worse before it gets better.
Government must finish more. We must finish more. But for now I’m going to leave the last word with a homeless man from Bristol. obedient nightContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com