On a good day for me I make $70. ibid.
Why can’t you take some of them people off the street and put them in his [Reagan’s] White House? Tupac Shakur, cited Tupac: Resurrection, 2003
Colombia has more internally displaced people than anywhere else in the world. Colombia with Simon Reeve, BBC 2017
Thousands of people are jailed here after being fined for being homeless, just for sleeping in a park, for loitering, for standing around in public. The Americas with Simon Reeve II, BBC 2019
20% arrested this month have been homeless. Overcriminalized: Alternatives to Incarceration, news, short 2014
In 2014 100 cities banned sitting or lying down in public places. ibid. caption
People everywhere are being arrested just for being homeless. ibid. caption
44,000 people in Los Angeles are homeless. On the Streets, caption, 2017
‘What are we supposed to do?’ ibid. homeless person
‘I used to be somebody. Now I’m somebody else.’ ibid.
If you are homeless in Detroit, you’ve a higher risk of dying on the streets than in any other city in the United States. Homeless people here are surviving in a city that’s seen more than its fair share of troubled times. Over the past fifty years Detroit has gone from being one of the richest cities in the US to being the largest ever declared bankruptcy with debts of over $18 billion. The sheer scale of the city’s decay means there are now around 70,000 abandoned buildings … Almost 20,000 homeless people living here. Stacey Dooley in the USA, Homelessness in Detroit, BBC 2014
Last year Centrepoint estimated that over 100,000 young people were homeless or at risk of homelessness in the UK. But the real number of homeless teens could be much higher as thousands go under the radar by sofa surfing or staying with friends. Stacey Dooley: The Young and the Homeless, BBC 2018
For young people the number one cause is a breakdown in family relationships at home. ibid.
It’s happening everywhere. ibid.
Homelessness is a major issue in the United States. A widespread reality in almost all major cities. So much so it’s become accepted as just a normal state of affairs. But Americans might be surprised to learn that homelessness did not always exist as a major phenomenon in the US. Abby Martin & The Empire Files: Homelessness Can Be Eradicated, Youtube 30.13, 2020
50% of homeless people spent their childhood in the foster care system. ibid.
Christmas 2017: You see people like Brian in every city and every town in the country. What you don’t see are the many thousands more families and children who are living in temporary accommodation because they haven’t got a home. Tonight: Hungry, Homeless and on Benefits, ITV 2017
According to the charity Shelter nearly 300,000 people are homeless across the UK. ibid.
Social housing: bidders are allocated points on immediate need and circumstances. ibid.
‘It’s like you’re invisible.’ ibid. Brian
My name is Adam Holloway and I’m undercover on the streets. I’m sleeping rough for a week in the winter weather. I’m joining the 4,000 or so who camp out each night across the country. Tonight: Undercover: Rough Sleeper, ITV 2018
Westminster has the highest number of rough-sleepers with 200-300 people sleeping out each night. ibid.
Where the average life expectancy is just 47 years. ibid.
I find evidence of the Spice epidemic gripping these streets. ibid.
The right of a landlord to make someone homeless even when they’ve done nothing wrong … It can be whole communities. Tonight: Britain’s Property Crisis, ITV 2018
The true cost of losing your home: why are so many families struggling to find somewhere affordable to live? … A wave of evictions is heading our way. Tonight: Losing Your Home: The True Cost, ITV 2022
Britain’s temporary housing crisis: from bedsits and hotel rooms to shared units. The new figures that reveal the shocking scale of the crisis. And the parents living in fear of eviction and of having nowhere to go. Tonight: Homeless Families: Our Christmas Crisis, ITV 2023
Across Britain families in their thousands are spending tonight in temporary accommodation. ibid.
One in five trans people report having been homeless. Abby Martin, The Empire Files: The Hidden War on Trans Rights, 2018
There’s many reasons why a homeless person is homeless. Big City Life: Homelessness in New York, homeless person, RT 2014
I’m from Cuba. ibid. Times Square batman
I just keep my head up. And every day as long as I wake up I’ve got another shot. ibid. homeless person
In the last five years the number of rough sleepers in Britain has doubled. Now I’m joining them. I’m Ed Stafford: former Army captain and seasoned explorer. For sixty days over winter I’m going to live out on the streets of Britain to learn what’s it’s really like to be homeless. I’m entering a dangerous world in the grip of booze and drugs, where crafty beggars make extraordinary sums. And not everyone is what they seem. 60 Days on the Streets I, Channel 4 2019
In England alone there are nearly 5,000 people living on the streets. ibid.
I have no money so if I’m going to survive for sixty day out here I’ll have to work out how to feed myself. ibid.
I need a filter on my nostrils ’cause it smells of piss. ibid. Ed finds doorway
There’s such active drug selling and buying in this area [Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester]. ibid.
Grafting: walking around and asking people for money. ibid.
Hanging out on the streets, you start to see the same old faces. ibid.
I’ve come to London: the epicentre of homelessness in the UK. Over a quarter of England’s rough sleepers live in the capital: that’s more than 1,000 people who bed down here every night. I’m joining this community with no money. 60 Days on the Streets II
If I can find an empty doorway. ibid.
London’s homeless community hasn’t been too welcoming. ibid.
People are still being kind. ibid.
Not everyone on these streets is actually homeless. ibid.
It’s disturbing not to be able to do more for an OAP in such poor health. ibid.
I’ve come to Glasgow: it’s one of the poorest cities in the whole of the UK … Levels have actually fallen thanks to progressive action by the Scottish government. 60 Days on the Streets III
On an average night around 30 people sleep rough in Glasgow compared to more than 1,000 in London. ibid.
Half a million Americans are homeless, and the problem can often be seen at its starkest in the shadows and backstreets of the City of Angels. (United States of America & California & Homeless & Los Angeles) The Americas with Simon Reeve III, BBC 2019
With homelessness on the rise, growing numbers of people are being housed in converted office blocks. Owned by private companies, rooms are rented out, not just by councils. We go undercover to investigate the reality of life in one office block conversion. Panorama: Cashing in on the Housing Crisis, BBC 2020
There are around 250 living rough on the streets of Greater Manchester. Manctopia: Billion Pound Property Boom I, BBC 2020
More than 5,000 homeless across the Manchester area. Manctopia: Billion Pound Boom II, BBC 2020
In 2018, 19 people died sleeping rough on the cities of Manchester. ibid.
Nearly 300 homeless men who had been temporarily living in a hotel on the Upper West Side of Manhattan will be relocated after weeks of backlash from some residents who said he men had diminished the quality of life in the upscale neighbourhood. NYT Metro twitter, cited Keiser Report September 2020
The country is so rich. And I think I see more homeless people on the street every month. How can we let this keep happening? Andy Warhol, cited Andy Warhol’s America III: Life After Death, BBC 2022
Diana arrived unannounced in the Bullring near Waterloo Station to meet the homeless who lived there. She spent the evening listening to stories of the men and women of cardboard city. Diana, ITV 2021
And blew the hamlets to bits … would drive more than 100,000 civilians from their homes … More than 3,000,000 homeless people right across the country. Ken Burns & Lynn Novick, The Vietnam War IV: Resolve (January 1966 – June 1967)
Rough sleepers at Marble Arch – police take action. Oxford Street Revealed s2e6, BBC 2015
Squatters take over a building in protest at an Oxford Street development … The squatters aren’t going quietly. Oxford Street Revealed s2e8