This blog was written by Izzy Cresswell. Izzy is an undergraduate student at Arts University Bournemouth who has experience navigating some of the challenges discussed in the piece.
Homelessness and higher education may form a nice piece of alliteration when placed next to one another, but as a combination they are an oxymoron. As it stands, the two do not share the same world. Homelessness is a noun. Someone or something is ‘homeless’. This is the defining aspect of whatever the term is being attributed to. A label which is all encompassing.
When someone is facing hardship, very quickly everything about what makes a person human is forgotten. Their hobbies, aspirations, or the possibilities of a future ahead. Instead, there is only space for a current circumstance which involves not occupying permanent accommodation.
