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Sky’s Jason Farrell has reunited with homeless man Ian Harrison to hear how he is doing as he navigates life in a hostel.
Jason last filmed with Ian last year, when he was sleeping rough in London.
He is now in a hostel but still struggling to get off the merry-go-round of homelessness, with this approximately the 30th hostel he has stayed in.
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@Judith-uz3xr
Does he do anything to help himself? The government will have to take care of him for the rest of his life.
@shanghaichica
They put them into hostels which is good because it gets them off the streets but they leave them to get on with it. They need more support. It’s not just about finding them somewhere to live there are often other issues like MH/addiction and if those are not solved then they are setting them up to fail.
@nicadair7700
146 Illegal immigrants have just been moved into The dragonfly Hotel in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire whilst our own are homeless, the media are keeping that quiet.
@MrMarkhall1
He looks a bit underweight
@MAGICALWOLVESSs
Drugs
@daliamosesp
wow. trying to recover from an addictive substance in a place full of other users sounds like hell.. absolutely not surprised people struggle without a safe environment and the correct support. These people are truly forgotten and ignored in society. We as a nation should be ashamed.
@patmcardle3317
I spent 30 years working in the homeless sector but in the last 10years I discovered how the system traps people, psychologically damages people, removes hope and at worst institutionalises people. No one really listens to Ian only about his drink and drugs. Homeless charities are incentivised to label and pathologise without recognising the impact it has. At Mayday we stripped it all back, gave back and the results were staggering. Ex CEO Mayday Trust
@mariajefferies8555
Wow, poor chap
The system is not helping him
@ianmorrison5474
He could have been given counselling and the most appropriate therapy years ago.
@G2Dominate
Britain is a scam !
@MoRafiq-l9l
Surely the best way to help this man and thousands like him would be too
1. Open large scale addiction treatment centres where people sign themselves up to and then are forced to stay for a few months to re-educate them and re-programme their minds while they get the emotional and nental health support they desperately need.
2. Much stricter jail sentences for those who sell drugs. I'd personally build a super prison in a place like Rwanda and put the people involved in drug gangs out there without all the luxuries they get in UK jsils amd let that be a deterrant to sell drugs – this in turn will force addicts off drugs.
3. Stop giving addicts and those in hostels all sorts of benefits – the money is a temptatikn to spend on habits. Replace money with meals served to them and clothes purchased for them.
People will say who will fund all of this but they fund themselves once the negatives they remove from society are eliminated.
@jason4275
England needs to take care of their own citizens first.
@barmytick4871
Crazy how a simple thing such as your family background can dictate your path in life. Free will doesn't really exist we're just products of a chain reaction of decisions made before we were even born. So don't look down on people like Ian we all know we would be in the exact same place if we were born as him.
@OGboxing...
Still shamelessly begging decent hard working people for money in public to buy scummy drugs. Disgusting. 20 years, no progress.
@curls9032
Arent there 5,000 hotel rooms sitting empty and paid for by the government. Are those standby rooms only for asylum seekers?
@DrBallSac
In the future, guide dogs will be replaced by guide robots. They will help in all disabilities and walks of life and act as servants to the homeless to teach and organise and protect them. I will name this model of robot Robo Hobo and hobo will be the future of addiction control.
@tinaclarke5498
We'd have so many homes if the 3rd world wasn't given homes
Could give thuds guy 10 flats
@Masud_S_Hoghughi
Lawd have mercy on da po
@mstt3530
This is scary, I’ve done so much in that time and he’s been in the same place! Terrible 😢
@mstt3530
There needs to be a help system in hostels