By Sophie Madden
BBC News, West Midlands
Footballer Tyrone Mings has shared his experience of homelessness as he supports a Royal campaign to tackle the issue.
The England and Aston Villa player is part of the Prince of Wales's charitable foundation as it puts in £3m to help make homelessness "rare, brief and unrepeated".
The five year "Homewards" initiative launched on Monday.
Mings recounted how he and his family were placed in emergency accommodation.
Speaking to Radio Four's Today programme, Mings said his family went through a period of "turbulence and instability" and were rehoused in emergency accommodation which he described as scary.