Homelessness..not just for Katrina victims

Homelessness can happen to anyone...
Homelessness can happen to anyone! All it takes is a serious turn of events in one's life; a death in the family; divorce; escaping abusive homes; lack of income due to unemployment; a house fire or losing a home due to natural disaster; substance abuse or illness.
I never thought it would happen to me, but it did....even I have lived in a homeless shelter (about 8 yrs ago while pregnant with youngest kid).

Why does it seem like millions of people only care if the reason you became homeless was because of a hurricane?

 

Politics.


I am intrested in your story though. How did you get out of homelessness? And why did you get in there in the first place?

 

08-22-2005, 11:54 AM #15
halloweenriot
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President Bush II is a great man and deserves as long of a vacation as he wants ~~ and for all those protester cunts,,,, i'd just like to remind them that we have a volunteer army -- nobody was drafted, anybody serving,, and anybody killed, signed up for the shit they marched into
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guess it was ok that he was still on vacation AFTER the hurricane had already hit Florida & Louisiana & Mississippi

 

meh. i've been homeless loads of times

 

i dont think it is only when a hurricane hits that ppl care,,, ya just see the amountof homelessness in such mass quantities when a hurricane hits n therefore more ppl take action,,, n the katrina thing,,,, ya just not got yaself a clue yet eh?????

 

I was homeless for 2-years back around the turn of the Century. It changes a person. I will never think, feel, or trust the same as I once did. I am mentally disabled and ended up on the streets. No one really cared. The Rescue Mission forces you to go to church 3-days a week, pay $7/day rent and no alcohol or drugs in your system or out for 30-days.

Being homeless was a trip for me. I had a rented room in a basement of this 'boarding house' a.k.a an old run down house where desperate people paid this greedy woman for there little unheated rooms in which I had one and lived hand to mouth paid out 3/4 of my Social Security check to her each month. I lived like an animal, to survive.

I now feel like if anyone has ever been a 'street person' or homeless and got pulled up outta the streets and make it the #1 fear for me is losing my apartment and being homeless again.

 

Well, I'm glad I never went thru with my plans to run away when I was 14...