Archive for March, 2010
Dee
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under alaska, face and voice of homelessness
Tweet Dee is living at the Brother Francis shelter in Anchorage, Alaska. It’s an emergency shelter, and after staying for thirty days, residents must find another place to stay. He’s been in Alaska for nearly 30 years, and he recently found new employment. He’s now searching for low income housing, but he cautions those who [...]
Jessica
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under alaska, face and voice of homelessness
Tweet “It sucks being homeless. And I don’t ever want to see my little girl homeless.” This was the first thing Jessica said when I met her in Anchorage. She and her 1-year-old daughter are currently living with Jessica’s aunt, who sometimes kicks them out when she’s angry. She’s a young mother, obviously scared to [...]
Mark
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under alaska, face and voice of homelessness
Tweet I met Mark at a soup kitchen in Anchorage, Alaska. He described himself as an average American–six to eight credit cards, a home, boat, and truck. But one day he came home to a basement full of sewage. He ended up keeping his debt but losing everything else. He lived in a tent in [...]
Sandy
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness, road trip
Tweet Sandy sleeps in a sleeping bag on the sidewalk in Berkley, California because it’s against the law to sleep in her car. She’s on the verge of mental illness from life on the streets. The thing keeping her unemployed? Her age. She says that’s the main factor keeping her from finding work, and she’s [...]
Kim
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under alaska, face and voice of homelessness, road trip
Tweet Until my recent trip to Anchorage, Alaska, I had never heard the term “Chronic Public Inebriate,” yet in Alaska the word “inebriate” is spoken everywhere. It is so grafted in Anchorage’s culture that even the homeless call themselves inebriates. At first it bothered me, but I soon learned that Anchorage’s homeless problem is very [...]
