In a country where homelessness has become so normalized that most people walk past it without a second glance, a small cluster of homes on the edge of Newquay is making several statements: homelessness is not inevitable, the people experiencing it deserve dignity rather than warehousing and that the actors who can actually solve it have been sitting outside the conversation the whole time.
The properties will be operated by St Petrocs, Cornwall’s leading homelessness charity, now in its 40th year. And the entire project is the lead exemplar of Homewards, Prince William’s flagship initiative to demonstrate that homelessness can be made rare, brief and unrepeated.
