(Sign in main reception at Dean street)
Welcome to a hostel in the heart of London - the most, if not the richest capital city in the world.

This site was brought about through necessity. It isn't until you become homeless that you find out how little your opinion matters. There does seem to be alot of money in dealing with the homeless and for a company willing to deal with them it definitely seems worth it. With the housing benefit maximum outlay, We the residents receive a paltry return.

In every area of what is required to exist - our hostel fails to deliver on any of them. The 'service' we receive is disturbing. Admittedly the hostel has a terrible reputation. A convenient excuse.


Persons are not correctly assessed when they enter Dean street. There are numerous people here with visible mental difficulties that require immediate help and are not getting it. Its quite simple really - out of sight is out of mind.

Our aims are to bring needed immediate attention to our homeless situation in the borough of Westminster and to inform the public of how much money it costs them to house a homeless person in a Novas hostel and in what conditions we live. We shall be looking at what the resident's receive.


�395.00 per WEEK housing benefit and �16.03 per week from the resident to stay here.
There are 127 residents at Dean street.
That makes roughly �2.5 Million pounds a year.
We have no recreational budget. We receive sub adequate nutrition. Our 'keyworkers' are overstretched with their own regular daily chores and cannot help us. Our resettlement options are limited to say the least.

We will be featuring pictures of a typical everyday food menu.
We are at this time in contact with nutritionists to give their opinion of whether our dietary requirements are being met. This will include our meals - breakfast and dinner.
We will also find out if our food is value for money/ quality.
We will be including photographs of our living conditions. We can assure that pictures will be vetted by ourselves (residents) as to not disgust.


We are homeless and some have experienced this on more that one occasion in our lives.
We will be featuring information from Westminster council.
Updates on our resettlement.


As you can probably tell by the site - We are not web designers ! Though at some point, if we get pc'd up, will be getting our teeth hard into Macromedia Flash so hopefully we can expect some more interactivity, faster and correct loading and a general smoother interface all round. We are also wanting to get submitted to many search engines so if anyone out there reads this and can help please email us.

[email protected]

Thank you.