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Kieran Cuddihy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
663 total appearances

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

Is it every Tuesday morning or every Thursday?

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

There's a once a week.

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

And I just thought, God, that's again, it's just one of those little things.

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

that they have to get used to, that suggests as you're walking through, this isn't normal.

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

This isn't a normal place to be living, that fire alarms are tested once a week in the building.

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

You probably can give us a better sense of that, about what's incongruous about here.

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

Tell us a bit more then about the facility.

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

I've mentioned a couple of times the number of people living here, but tell us a bit more about it.

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

Megan...

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

when she walked through the door here in February, knew the score to a degree.

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

You know, she's been through the ringer and seven moves over the last three years.

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

But imagine somebody who turns up here and it's their first time presenting at homeless services and they're sent to Huben House and maybe they think, I might be here for a few weeks, I might be here for a few months, I'll get HAP, I'll get choice-based letting, I might get something.

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

Tell me about maybe the conversation you have to have with them and how frank you have to be.

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

And then as people...

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

live here longer and longer.

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

The nature of the service probably changes as well.

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

It's less kind of roof over their head.

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

Let's get them out again.

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

You've got kids who are growing up here.

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

You've got kids with additional needs like Megan has as well.