Novas Annual Report 2022

Annual Report 2022
LEANNE’S STORY
I have been homeless on my own since 2014 but I did also experience a
period of time when I was homeless with my kids for two years.
I have experienced it all in terms of homelessness; from sleeping on people’s
sofas, squats and also the streets there was a period of time when I slept in
my own car.
I feel like every time I do forms or have meetings with the council they want
me to jump through hoops. Nothing is ever straight forward all I want is a
home. My eldest daughter is now 20 years old. I am a grandmother. Why
have I never been offered a home?
I am now 40 years old and unwell. I am placed in Drumcondra. I need to
be in a service in a different location, near all my family. I want to be close
to my grandmother, she reared me and she doesn’t have a lot of time left. I
worry about this.
NOVAS is one of the best hostels I have experienced but I am ready to be
housed. If I could make changes to the service I am in now, it would be in
relation to sharing a bedroom. I should have my own space for privacy.
The GP comes to the service every two weeks, this is good as I do suffer
mentally and I am chronically ill.
Being a mother when you’re in one of these places and your kids are not
with you is very hard. I have to get two trains out and two trains back to see
them. On top of being sick it’s very hard, I miss my family I just want to go
home to them.
“I SHOULD HAVE MY OWN
SPACE FOR PRIVACY.
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