Craig David makes social housing plea at former Southampton home

Craig David has returned home in the Infancy Council to promote social housing, which said “heartbreaking” to which many children do not have access.

The singer, whose successes include 7 days, lived on the Holyrood farm, near Southampton City Center from the age of one until his musical career played at age 20.

He has made a film for the housing charity campaign, returning to the farm with his mother Tina.

“Growing up in a social home meant everything for me,” he said 43 years.

“It was just a place to live: it was a space where I felt safe, supported and capable of being myself.

“The meaning of the community was also so strong. We took care of each other and that did all the differentiation.”

The refuge film continues David knowing the family who now lives in his old house, in addition to talking about his childhood and early career.

While living in the area, songs occurred for his debut 2000 album, Born to do it, which became the best -selling debut by a British male act at that time.

“Back with refuge to visit my old house, and even feeling that same energy, he reminded me of how powerful the basis of a stable and loving home can be.”

The garage singer said it was “heartbreaking to think that so many children today do not have the same chance.”

“Each child deserves the security, support and sense of belonging that I was lucky to grow, and that means investing in social homes,” he added.

Mairi Macrae, director of Shelter campaigns and policies, said that the charity of housing and homeless people was grateful to David for showing “how powerful and changing a social house can be, providing the solid base for a successful career and future.”

She said: “That is a world of what they face the growing number of homeless children today: living in temporary accommodation where instability appears on them, not knowing if they will be forced and communities.”

The beneficial organization is asking the Government to commit to invest in 90,000 social homes a year over the next 10 years in its review of June expenses.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said that the government was “taking urgent measures to fix the broken system we inherit.”

They said that the ministers were doing this “through our plan for change, injecting £ 2 billion to help offer the greatest impulse in the construction of social and affordable housing in a generation, investing in services of homeless people and providing well -known reforms to the right to buy that will protect the actions of existing social housing.”