When a family is experiencing homelessness, it becomes the duty of a local authority to move them into temporary accommodation. The reasons families face homelessness are many – they could be fleeing domestic violence, facing eviction, or struggling to meet the cost of increasing rent. There are 109,000 households in temporary accommodation in England, which includes 142,000 children. In comparison, 3,900 people are estimated to be experiencing street homelessness.
Since 2022, Anthony Luvera has been embedded within the team of Focused Care practitioners for homeless families at Shared Health Foundation, working with families living in temporary accommodation across Greater Manchester to represent their experiences through photography and audio recordings.
Each family has a different story about how they came to experience homelessness, and where they are headed next. Their accounts give insight into the complexity and the sorrow of temporary accommodation, the resilience and grit of those that live there, and the changes that are possible. They show parents who are willing to fight for a better future for their children.