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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Sammy Gecsoyler and Jessica Murray

‘It feels very much like a prison’: inside a cramped Birmingham homeless hostel

Sumaira Fareed holds Ezaan as they stand outside a gate leading into the complex
Sumaira Fareed with her three-year-old son, Ezaan, outside Oscott Gardens. Photograph: Andrew Fox/The Guardian

Three-year-old Ezaan has been homeless his entire life. Instead of making memories in a childhood home, he has spent his formative years stuck in hotels and a cramped student dorm.

His mother, Sumaira Fareed, was made homeless more than three years ago. She was asked to leave her single persons hostel – where children were not allowed to live – after giving birth. She tended to her newborn for a month in hospital as the pair had nowhere else to go.

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