@skinnylatte >people often like to say that we're all only a few pay cheques from the streets, but some people have much less of a safety net than others, and once you slip through it's very, very much harder to get back on the other side.
Lavelle's book struck me with how similar his experiences were to my own, and how I just scraped by, clinging on to being housed, both as a teenager and when I became chronically ill my 30s.