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Homeless street angels - Lifestyle choice
Yorkshire Post
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15/11/2023
Homeless street angels - Lifestyle choice. Filmed and edited by Jonny White.
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I would never ever ever choose to live in a tent, ever, ever.
00:41
But if it comes to the choice of living in a doorway or living in a tent,
00:45
feeling that little bit of safeness being in a tent, I'd rather be in a tent.
00:49
I don't choose to live in a tent. I don't want to be in a tent tonight.
00:51
I don't feel well tonight. I feel ill, absolutely ill, and I'm going to have to go put a tent up,
00:56
get my head down in a tent tonight. I'm not going to sleep in a doorway.
00:58
I'm going to have to find somewhere out the way. I just want to go to sleep.
01:02
It's hard when, you know, if I had a home I could just go to bed.
01:06
But yeah, it's not a lifestyle choice. I don't choose this.
01:10
Especially at my age. I'm nearly 50.
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01:16
I've been to council today because they say I'm not vulnerable.
01:20
They cannot find me any accommodation. Feels like I'm stuck on red tape.
01:25
You know, it's like I'm climbing a ladder and there's no end to it.
01:31
And it's a slow process when you've got nothing.
01:34
Oh, why do they like to keep you with nothing? And now they like to keep you down.
01:38
Probably you think that's wrong what I'm saying, but that's how it feels when you're in this situation.
01:44
I know I feel a bit embarrassed about this, but I am homeless.
01:49
And it's, you know, it's taking, it's toll on my health.
01:57
It's my spine and my fingers and my toes frozen on a morning.
02:04
I've been everywhere to get a sleeping bag. We don't have any.
02:09
We don't have any, they're saying, fair enough, you know.
02:13
But there's nothing much I can say or do really.
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02:20
I don't really, really want to be out here. You know, it's my choice.
02:26
You know, and I'll take whatever help I can get.
02:32
It's hard. It's really hard.
02:36
You know, it's like, you're sat there, you don't want to be sat there.
02:40
You're not dressed. So you just take whatever help you can get.
02:44
And, you know, there's a lot of people out there who are saying, don't because it's my choice.
02:48
It's my choice. Do you know what I mean?
02:51
But, you know, just listen to people and, you know, that's it.
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03:02
People on the streets, it's a lifestyle choice.
03:05
Well, I did urge her on Twitter to spend a night on the streets in a doorway in Leeds
03:11
with the threat of getting urinated on, beaten up, raped and robbed.
03:15
And then let's see how much she's begging for a tent in the morning.
03:19
It's absolutely disgusting.
03:21
All these people on the streets, they've got no place to go.
03:25
The funds have run out, the hostels are full and there's nowhere for them to go.
03:29
It's not a lifestyle choice. I had no choice but to be in a tent.
03:32
I don't want to be in there. And it took three or four attempts for me, for my own, for the council to listen to me.
03:38
And even then I had to go to a homeless helping situation to get professionals to help me.
03:43
And even then, it still took another three, four weeks and I'm still suffering even now.
03:48
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03:50
I think the banning of the tents is absolutely ridiculous.
03:54
You really, really do need to pay attention to the people who are homeless because they are really struggling.
03:59
I'm not going to lie, we need more buildings and more places where we can get in and get off the streets, out of the cold,
04:06
because it's obviously affecting a lot of people in a big way.
04:09
It's really, really serious at a serious point and that is no lying leads.
04:14
You really, really need to help us in a major way.
04:18
How would they like the only bit of shelter, whoever's saying that, took away from them or they can't get it provided?
04:25
We've helped, let them come and live out here for nothing.
04:30
And then when you're trying to help people and then you're saying, no, you can't do that.
04:36
It's stupid, isn't it? It is.
04:38
Tents give people a sense of responsibility, a little bit of shelter.
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It gives them just somewhere where they can feel safe.
04:47
Even if it's a small tent, a big tent, it doesn't make no difference.
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It's just their own sense of being safe.
04:53
Because, well, I lived in it. If I didn't have my tent, I couldn't feel safe at all.
04:58
Definitely not. If anybody had to choose to live in a tent or live on the streets, I'd rather be in a house.
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