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The Story Of Three Men In Tents Outside Habitat Paints A Damning Portrait Of Housing In The Age Of Austerity
Emma Youle - 7 September 2018
Outside the flagship Habitat home improvement store on London’s Tottenham Court Road, three homeless men are living in tents. It’s a striking image, one that could almost be a poster for austerity Britain, showing the winners and losers of the housing crisis.
This is reality for the rough sleepers enduring a tough existence on the streets and today, HuffPost UK tells the stories of these three men as figures show an estimated 9,100 people nationwide are now living in tents, cars, trains or buses as the homelessness crisis deepens.
The bitter irony of their situation does not escape the men, as shoppers browse the shop for trendy furniture. “It could be a statement for the homeless couldn’t it,” one of the men, John, tells HuffPost UK. “If you look at the individual living outside the shop and the individual that goes inside the shop, we both want better homes. It’s as simple as that.”... See more
