Homelessness is not ‘bad behaviour’ but the legacy of a traumatic childhood

If any one single story dominated 2017, it was homelessness. It generated endless headlines, including the controversial claim by one official that homelessness was caused by ‘years of bad behaviour’. But according to a study at Cork Simon Community, it is most often caused by childhood trauma and awareness of this should inform homelessness services, writes Catherine Shanahan

If any one single story dominated 2017, it was homelessness. It generated endless headlines, including the controversial claim by one official that homelessness was caused by ‘years of bad behaviour’. But according to a study at Cork Simon Community, it is most often caused by childhood trauma and awareness of this should inform homelessness services, writes Catherine Shanahan

DYLAN* had a crap childhood.