When a family is experiencing homelessness, it becomes the duty of a local authority to move them into temporary accommodation. The reasons families face homelessness are many - they could be fleeing domestic violence, facing eviction, or struggling to meet the cost of increasing rent. There are 112,660 households in temporary accommodation in England, which includes 145,800 children. In comparison, 3,900 people are estimated to be
experiencing street homelessness.

Since 2022, Luvera has been embedded within the team of Focused Care practitioners for homeless families at Shared Health Foundation, working with families living in temporary accommodation across Greater Manchester to represent their experiences through photography and audio recordings. Shown here is a selection of portraits of the families and excerpts from conversations recorded with participants – a window into an often-hidden world. Each family has a different story about how they came to experience homelessness and where they are headed next.

Anthony Luvera is an Australian socially engaged artist, writer, and educator based in London. The long-term collaborative work he creates with individuals and communities has been exhibited widely in galleries, public spaces, and festivals, including the UK House of Commons, Tate Liverpool, The Gallery at Foyles, the British Museum, and many more.

Anthony is an Associate Professor of Photography in the Centre for Arts, Memory, and Communities at Coventry University, and editor of Photography For Whom? a periodical about socially engaged photography.