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Kieran Cuddihy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
663 total appearances

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Liveline
Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

There's four of you here, so I just wonder how many people listening to this take for granted, and I'm one of them, absolutely, that, you know, on a Friday or Saturday night, all of you as a family can sit down and watch a movie together.

Liveline
Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

You know, something as simple as that.

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

Forget communions and birthday parties and Christmas, that just the family of four or five or whoever it is can sit down in front of a TV and watch a family movie.

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

And the laundry, bedsheets.

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

So that morning commute to school includes suitcases and the pram.

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

Where were you working?

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

How much did you enjoy that?

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

Yeah.

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

And I know, and none of this goes without saying, is your fault.

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

At the same time, I know from speaking to people who find themselves in this situation, particularly parents like you with kids, that there's this sense of,

Liveline
Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

Of guilt?

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

Do you?

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

Yeah.

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

Yeah.

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

What would a home mean to you and to the kids?

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

When I was chatting to Oliver earlier, I was making the point, you know, there's nobody who's not aware of the housing and homelessness crisis.

Liveline
Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

We're talking about it for years.

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

And usually we talk to politicians and policymakers because that's the way out of it, ultimately, is policy.

Liveline
Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

We don't often hear from people like you, Megan, and the people who are, you know, behind the statistics.

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

Do you feel invisible to...