The stats were shocking – 726 people last year, up 50% in just five years – but what about the lives behind them? Facebook Twitter Pinterest Danny (left) and Simon (centre) collect the Features Journalism award at the British Journalism Awards earlier this month. Neither of us are homelessness experts by any means, but we’ve had long-term connections to homelessness whether through being homeless (Lavelle) or doing voluntary work with homeless people (Hattenstone). We’re not saying that they wouldn’t have been addicts, homeless or mentally ill without austerity, or that they wouldn’t have died horribly early, but we are saying it didn’t need to be this way. All of them have shared their memories and photographs to enable us to create rounded portraits of lives lost or stolen (captured with such humanity by the illustrator Alan Vest).

Source: The Guardian December 21, 2019 09:32 UTC