K Road Chronicles is a look at homelessness from the inside. Six – once homeless herself for several years, now a journalist – is our guide to the colourful, diverse, harsh and often tragic world of street people living on and around Auckland’s Karangahape Road.
Mickey, a former drug dealer and addict, is now in his 60s. He prefers to be called Mickey the Rat, and, until recently, he lived in a cemetery. But, after landing up in a court with a difference, the trajectory of his life dramatically changed for the better.