When I was growing up, our home was my family’s security. It wasn’t much, maybe – just a semi-detached house in Surrey – but for me, it was the base camp from which I could learn and grow. Some years later, as a lawyer, many of my first cases were fighting for families at risk of homelessness, because I wanted every child to have that security I had.
And yet, we know so many people don’t have that basic safety and security of a home in this country. Over 150,000 children are in temporary accommodation, the highest on record. Rough sleeping in 2023 was 27% higher than the previous year. As winter closes in and temperatures drop, too many people will be on the sharp end of our broken housing…
