With a little help from my friends

LEAVING HOME HAS NEVER BEEN EASY. There are plenty of young adults holing up with parents before tackling the adventure of going it alone. When you are young, everything is complicated by having less. With fewer things to pack, there’s just so much more to resource. Hard to simply sell up large, board a big RV and boomer down the road chasing your own private rainbow. Your answer, invariably, is found in teams; board the bus together and make house with friends.

But it’s easy to forget that, for some, it isn’t the leaving but the finding home that’s the challenge. Not everyone’s journeys are the same and dallying over mortgage or lease agreements in the search for independence isn’t yet in everyone’s diary. Shelter worries can be far more immediate and, for those transitioning out of care or homelessness, finding a roof is somewhat more pressing. It is into this traversing oneself to the next adventure where Strachan Group Architects (SGA), working with Visionwest Community Trust, offers some telling friendship to some of our most vulnerable