"I was living under a tree in a sleeping bag,"Mr Green said.
"People tried to help me many times, but something about homelessness is not just the roof over your head,"he explained.
"We tiptoe around these things a lot of the time and need to ask why this is happening."
"They're marginalised in the community, they're judged in the community."
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