Homeless Beneath Manchester

The strategy puts out a long-term goal to decrease the number of people who find themselves at risk of homelessness and expands on the work already being done in Greater Manchester to eradicate the need for rough sleeping and address homelessness.

The homeless population living beneath the streets has become a concern in Manchester, UK, across the pond. There, the population is smaller, and some of the locals are immigrants who came to England in search of employment only to discover they had lost their jobs and had no other options.

The community has organized itself similarly to the other groups we've encountered, despite being represented as being small. In an effort to make the space feel more like a home, furniture such as couches and dressers may also be added. Of course, rapid changes in the weather and human factors, such as theft and violence, are the main threats. The residents try their best to make it livable by hopping from shack to shack throughout the city and taking weekly showers at hostels.