Craig David makes social housing plea in emotional return to childhood council houseShelter
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00:00Oh wow. Come on in.
00:05Wow.
00:09Growing up in a social home to me was everything.
00:12This is, this is wild, you know.
00:15The safe space that my mum had created for me to be able to do and create and be everything that a young kid wanted to be.
00:22Wow.
00:23This is vibing.
00:25This window.
00:26That window's the same.
00:27No, it's just like all of those songs from Born To Do It.
00:32From Fill Me In, Rewind, Walking Away.
00:35What makes it so wild is that you can create something in this small, beautiful, safe space that then changed all of our lives.
00:46Do you know what I mean? I feel like that's what's the real takeaway.
00:50If all of the last 25 years just somehow just evaporated and I was back here,
00:56I would feel as wholesome as I do now because it's just, look, the sun is shining and it's just a sense of community.
01:02It just feels like you're part of something.
01:05If we didn't have this social home, I think life would have been a lot different.
01:09It was having our own space was just amazing.
01:13And he just thrived from day one.
01:16We absolutely need to invest in social housing.
01:19This home gave me the foundation for me to become the man that I am today.
01:23It's painful to know that when you're living in such an affluent country, there are kids out there who haven't got the opportunity to be given this kind of housing.
01:33All right.
01:38Oh, yeah.
01:39I'll see.
01:42All right.
01:44Oh, yeah.