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It is expensive to live in hotels, even cheap ones - more expensive than renting.

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.

When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family... Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.

I know people who have been without a home for ages, and lots of my friends are sofa surfing because they are in between jobs or saving for degrees and other studies - paying £500 rent every month is just not feasible for them.

You have to do whatever jobs you can to pay the rent.

The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.

I used to brag that I can hold up any eviction - even if the landlord had legal rights, I could hold it up for a year.

In principle if I could not have a home I wouldn't. But not having a home would be too difficult procedurally, going from hotel to hotel, the gap of three hours where you're hungry and tired.

The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.

When you're unemployed for six months or a year, it is hard to qualify for a lease, so even the option of relocating to find a job is often off the table.