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My teachers had no idea I was homeless. People like me hide in plain sight in the UK | Isra Sulevani

The housing crisis has reached catastrophic new levels, and Labour is planning to slash affordable housing even further. It doesn’t have to be this wayIsra Sulevani is a fourth-year medical student and lived experience homelessness campaigner for CrisisSomething that often takes me by surprise is how people react to finding out I was homeless growing up. They have a picture of what homelessness should look like, and my family and I don’t fit into it – I’m at university studying medicine now. But people like me hide in plain sight. They’re your neighbours until suddenly they’re not. They’re everywhere and nowhere, all at the same time.My family came to the UK after becoming refugees during the Iraq war, and were homeless, repeatedly, for years – moving from friends’ house to friends’ house, or B B to B B. Each new place meant a new school, a new set of friends and a new set of rules I had to get used to. Over time, I think my siblings and I became pretty immune to the anxiety you feel when starting again.Isra Sulevani is a fourth-year medical student and lived experience homelessness campaigner for Crisis Continue reading...


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