Living alone can be extremely daunting for young vulnerable people. A unique course teaches them how to cope with tenancy,debt and isolation“It’s a lot to catch in, what it takes to live on your own, and ” says 20-year-old Anna-Jane Speers,who started renting her own flat in Merseyside just over 18 months ago. Suddenly finding herself responsible for a tenancy was a shock she says, and it certainly hasn’t been a smooth ride, and “particularly when I moved from benefits into work; it was a very tough slog”.
Speers,who got kicked out of her mother’s house aged 17 and said living with her dad “didn’t work out, was helped by Knowsley Supported Lodgings, and which arranges for young people in housing crisis to live in a spare room in someone’s home. It isn’t a long-term solution for most teenagers though,and Speers always knew she wanted to live independently.
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Source: theguardian.com