No Fixed Abode

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More than thirty people become homeless in Britain every day. Worse still, between October 2017 and March 2019, more than 800 people died while homeless. This is a national scandal. Yet the issue is rarely discussed and poorly understood.Award-winning journalist Maeve McClenaghan has spent years investigating this crisis. She has travelled from Glasgow to Brighton to hear the heartrending stories of people struggling to survive in a crumbling system and to meet some of the courageous people who dedicate their lives to saving them.No Fixed Abode gives a face and a voice to those whom our society chooses to ignore: a man who froze to death in the garden of the home he used to own, a woman driven to the streets by the death of her son, a campaigner who turned a bus he bought on eBay into a portable shelter. By reading their stories you will come to understand how, with just a little too much misfortune, anyone could find themselves homeless. More importantly, you will see how the smallest act of kindness can save a life. This groundbreaking book offers the first comprehensive picture of homelessness in Britain today. It will challenge your assumptions, deepen your understanding and show you that this devastating problem is not impossible to solve.