HOW THE MEDIA NEEDS TO REFRAME BRITAIN’S HOMELESSNESS CRISIS

If you have recently read an article, or watched a news broadcast about homelessness, chances are that you haven’t been shown real people, or heard their individual stories. Instead, you’ve read numbers and statistics, and perhaps seen generic images of people sleeping in tents on city streets. Does this impact the way we relate to some of the most vulnerable people in our society?