Interviewer: How safe do you feel?

Participant: It’s as safe as you could say rolling a dice. You know, you never know what number you’re gonna get, you never know what around the corner. You know what I mean. That’s what I put that down to you.

Interviewer: Do you identify this location as your home? If so, are you asked to move?

Participant: Nah, erm… never asked to move from here. I come here because it’s got a bit of warmth. At the end of the day yeah… it’s as simple as this. the government are full of fucking shits. Sorry for swearing. You know what it is… say if you was on drugs, and you’ve been down certain roads yeah, they put you in these fucking houses. You know these supported accommodations and all that. They’re still current drug users. And you’re only as strong as your supporting foundation. So, before you know it, your walls are crumbling in. it’s a built system… failproof system. So, you never get nowhere. That’s a fact cos that’s on paper that. Do you know what I mean? So, you know all these people who you know when they try to make themselves look good and the government on the TV by saying ‘oh we’ve rehoused all these.’ Well, come and have another look, cos they aint fucking rehoused, and then, what they’re doing yeah is, they’re giving people, rent money into their own accounts to pay rent. That a one hundred percent failproof system. Fact! Do you know what I mean? So, everything that’s constructed around so called ‘helping’, is one hundred percent a failproof system. That’s documented that. Right. The government’s own documen…fucking…tation states that. Do you know what I mean, yeah? And it’s as simple as this in this country yeah… what the government do right, is they bend us over real hard.. and fucking bone us real hard for the rest of the world to see. And that’s it.

Interviewer: What do you know about the area?

Participant: I’m born and bred me so; I know it like the back of my hand.

Interviewer: Yeah. Are there any visible crimes?

Participant: Not a lot recently. Nah not a lot around here.

Interviewer: Do you get disturbed a lot?

Participant: most times yeah, you do get disturbed a lot. But it depends on who you are though aswel, and if people know who you are. Obviously, some of the people who come on these streets yeah… they’ve lived certain lifestyles, they’ve been certain people before and people out here know that. People who don’t know that; they’ll come across and find out that. You know, other than that yeah, I don’t know. I don’t know because everyone has a different view though innit. But ninety percent of the time, everyone has the same view.

Interviewer: Thank you for taking part in this interview.

Participant: Nah nice one for that. Cheers.