- [Interviewer] Nathan.
- Hello.
- [Interviewer] We're
here in Central London.
- Yes.
- [Interviewer] You're down
here in a tube station,
trying to stay dry.
- Correct.
- [Interviewer] You're homeless.
- I am.
- [Interviewer] Tell me about it.
- I'm homeless because I was looking after
my mom in Bristol, which
is not far from London.
In August last year she
passed away with cancer,
'cause it was my mom's place
and the landlord was a bit of an arse.
He wouldn't let me stay
and take over the place
so cut a long story short,
the landlord took me to court
and got me evicted, and that's
the reason I became homeless.
And I'm trying to get back on my feet,
but it's really hard.
Once you've slipped down the slide,
it's hard to get back up on your feet.
- [Interviewer] It really is
and I take care of my mom
and if they take her house,
which they might, I'm
gonna be outside here again
and it happens a lot.
- It's horrible.
It's horrible.
- [Interviewer] So tell me
about homelessness in London.
- It's really bad.
There's a lot of homeless people in London
as you would of seen for yourself.
There's a hell of a lot.
Nothing seems to be done
really much about it.
When someone's housed, another
homeless becomes it seems.
Just one big circle and
there's a lot of homeless
that don't wanna get housed, or get helped
and then there's homeless that do
wanna be helped, you know?
It's the government seems to not care.
- [Interviewer] Is anybody helping you?
- At the moment I have
connections in the church,
they're helping me a little
bit, but not much really.
- [Interviewer] How do
you survive out here?
- Survive?
- [Interviewer] What's
your day like?
- I try to make four, five pounds per day.
If I can get four, five pounds,
I can get a shower and a meal
only a little camper bed for the night.
At St Martin's church but I struggle
to make a pound if I'm lucky.
To be honest with you, the police...
- [Interviewer] So the church charges you?
- They charge you for the
food and the water rates
and stuff like that.
It's not the inside of the church,
it's like a center on the side.
- [Interviewer] Right,
right, right, got it.
- If you understand?
- [Interviewer] Got it, but they charge.
- Yeah they charge.
- [Interviewer] It's crazy.
- It's crazy, but if you look
at the food they give you,
it is a very nice meal, I suppose.
- [Interviewer] Well then I
guess it's kind of worth it.
It's just to me, if they're doing charity,
they should help you get out of here,
so you can save the pounds
- It's very true.
- [Interviewer] that you make,
to maybe get out of homelessness.
You know?
- Yeah.
- [Interviewer] What would
you want housed people,
to know about the homelessness
and sleeping rough?
- Just, it's really easy
to become homelessness,
become homeless, just don't get yourself
in that predicament if you
think you're gonna slide
down to that slope.
Get help as soon as possible.
Just don't become homeless, it's not nice.
It's very horrible.
- [Interviewer] I forgot we're in here.
Anything else you'd like to add?
- Not really, I'm very tired,
I struggle to get a lot of sleep,
so I'm very ...
- [Interviewer] Sleep deprivation
out here.
- Exactly, yeah.
- [Interviewer] It's crazy.
If you had three wishes,
what would they be?
- A shower, a meal,
and spend a bit of time
with my little boy.
- [Interviewer] Well thank
you very much for talking.
- No problem, thank you for your time.
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