The room that I currently write this in will probably no longer be here in a few weeks. The building is going to be torn down. I am a property guardian in a school in central Hackney. What was meant to be six months of accommodation turned out to last just over a year.
I was lucky on that point and on the location, Hackney my eternal home, and also the fact that I live with eight other individuals who are great.
They, like myself, will be out of a home but …