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Kieran Cuddihy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
663 total appearances

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

You know, they think they might be here for a few weeks.

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

What did you think when you came here?

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

So, you know, people would be familiar with the idea of being on the social housing waiting list and kind of very, very slowly moving along that list.

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

But the choice-based letting...

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

You know, it's great for people who get it, but one feature of it that strikes me as kind of unintentionally cruel is you probably get your hopes up, do you?

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

Every time you apply, you think maybe this will be the one.

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

And that's 60 times you think this could be the house we get.

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

So what do you do when your kids have gone to school and you've no job at the moment?

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

And are you talking to people for that?

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

Are you getting a bit of help?

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

Just stuck in a funk.

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

Do you tell people where you're living?

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

That you're homeless.

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

If I mentioned making small talk in a pub or a sideline of a match.

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

And she's been here since she was a 12-year-old?

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

So like Megan, kind of kids, you've two kids anyway.

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

One is still too young, but one of them, there's no memory really of life beyond being homeless.

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

No, not at all like that.

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

Can you remember what you were doing when you were 12 to 14?

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Liveline at Houban House: Voices from Emergency Accommodation

What impact does that have on the relationship between you and your teenager as well?