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NEW RESEARCH REPORT – ‘Desperation of Poverty Life’ project.
The final report from the ‘Desperation of Poverty Life’ project is now available, sharing community-led research and recommendations to improve York’s Local Welfare Safety Net.

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What We Do

Lived Insights works alongside people with direct experience of homelessness, addiction, mental ill health and the criminal justice system.

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We provide a critical overview of what works and what doesn’t within the current support systems relating to poverty, health inequalities and financial exclusion.

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“When you’ve got past trauma, it takes a long time for you to recognise that it’s the trauma that actually put you on this bandwagon. Once you recognise that – accept it – you stop feeling all the blame because you go on all your life thinking ‘it’s my fault’. I’ve done this…and when you recognise that, actually, somebody else did this to me, that’s how it started.”

Sarah, from a local female hostel