Prince William meets with Homewards resident

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The Prince of Wales meets with Homewards Advocate Gail Porter, as they talk with a resident who is moving into one of 31 newly furnished homes in Aberdeen as part of The Royal Foundation's Homewards programme. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00You've just literally moved in?

00:02Yes. Do you know this? I have a really bad memory so I do apologise.

00:07Monday you moved in?

00:08Monday. Monday I moved in and got started with it all.

00:12So I've done it quite quickly.

00:14I'm sorry, the last thing you want is all of us in your new homes. I apologise.

00:17Thank you for having us in here.

00:19I've tried to make it as homely and comfortable as possible.

00:22And the furniture? Is this your furniture?

00:25This is furniture that has all been helped with through Langston.

00:30She's helped me with all of this.

00:32Yeah, I would have been lost without her.

00:34I've been learning about how difficult it is to get furniture for social housing.

00:37I hadn't appreciated quite how tricky that is.

00:39It's a difficult one, yeah, it very much is.

00:42Because there's so many people who've got to be involved with it.

00:45So I then had moved out of that property that we shared and ended up in the city centre.

00:53I was renting somewhere and then a bad situation happened, without going into too much detail.

01:02And I then ended up going to the local council to ask them for help.

01:07And they put me in temporary accommodation.

01:09So once the council had made their decision as to whether I was legally homeless,

01:15this is how all of this came about.

01:17I had previously been in touch with Langston.

01:21And I had to give them the information that they needed.

01:23And they came back to me really, really quickly.

01:26How long were you in temporary accommodation for?

01:28I was in temporary accommodation for about seven weeks.

01:32It wasn't long, but obviously they put you on a list to where you should be housed,

01:39or how you can be housed, and that can take months.

01:43So had it not been for Langston, I would probably still be where they had originally put me.

01:49It's interesting to know your journey as to how you've ended up here,

01:52because it sort of all matters as to how you find yourself here.

01:55And how do you feel now you're here, now you can see where your home is?

01:59As I keep saying, I slept like a baby.

02:02We were in the same mattress.

02:04When you get to my gallery, that's it.

02:09In the Mattel house thing, it was the same people that made your mattress.

02:12The same people that made the mattress.

02:13And I've got insomnia and I slept all night.

02:16Honestly, I've slept like a baby.

02:18It's been a bit of a whirlwind, to say the least, but I so much appreciate it.

02:23If somebody moves into a property with nothing, then I can help to a certain degree,

02:28because we have our furniture project.

02:30But when Homewards swept in, it was just fantastic.

02:35The difference that it's made between what Kelly would have had to move into

02:41and what she has moved into is chalk and cheese.

02:44And why is that? What things have been made easier or doors have been opened for you?

02:48The doors that have been opened are all of these lovely companies

02:53so generously donating all the furniture that you could possibly need.

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