2,000 rough sleepers who were put up in hotels and other accommodation across Greater Manchester as part of the Everyone In scheme.
But while staying at the Amblehurst Hotel in Sale he fell ill and spent weeks in hospital. By the time he was discharged the programme had ended and once again he found himself looking for somewhere to live.Ben, who didn't want to give his second name, said: "It was alright in the hotel.
I had a roof over my head and a bed."They gave us three meals a day, but it had no cooking facilities, nowhere to wash your clothes."But about four weeks in I got ill.
I came down with something really bad. I had ulcers in my lungs."They thought I had coronavirus because it was exactly the same symptoms so I had to isolate in.