Archive for July, 2010
Raquel
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2010
Tweet Raquel has been homeless since 17. She’s now 19, and this is her first week trying to get her life back together by living in a youth homeless shelter in Denver, Colorado. Raquel made some bad choices. She said she lived on the streets because her relationship with her mother was not so good, [...]
JT
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2010
Tweet JT currently lives in a youth homeless shelter in Denver, Colorado. He has been homeless since last November. JT is 19. Most homeless youth ‘couch surf’, which is homeless. The stories I’ve heard are horrible. Not knowing where you are going to sleep, and then having to do ‘things’ do get space on the [...]
Jeremy and Alicia
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2010
Tweet I received a call today from Chris, an outreach worker at Denver’s homeless youth services Urban Peak . He said he had to pick up some kids left stranded by a “sales crew”. I never heard of such a thing so it didn’t “register” or make sense. When I arrived at their downtown facility [...]
Amber and Earl
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2010
Tweet Amber and Earl are homeless living on the streets. Today they happened to be traveling through Denver, Colorado, which is where we met. Amber has been homeless for 4 years now, ever since the day she turned 18. Earl says his first taste of homelessness was at 16. But that he was “straight up” [...]
Sergei
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2010
Tweet This one wrecked me. I was crossing a street in Salt Lake City and saw Sergei. I asked him if he would like some socks. He responded “I don’t have any money”, which was the first sign Sergei was new to the streets. I just didn’t know how new. Today is Sergei’s 18th birthday. [...]
Rick
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness, road trip
Tweet It’s summer and many people have a second home to get away from the heat. Well, so does Rick. He lives homeless in a tunnel underneath Las Vegas. When the weather is hot like the day we visited he lives near the end of the tunnel because there is a breeze. When colder weather [...]
Barry
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2010
Tweet Barry has lived in a tunnel underneath Las Vegas for two months. The tunnels are massive storm drains running under the city. luckily, Barry has yet to experience a rainfall, but his bed and everything else are propped up several feet off the ground just in case. It’s hard to say how many people [...]
Linda
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness
Tweet If it wasn’t for Linda’s sign I would have never thought she was homeless. Can you picture this woman sleeping outside by the Santa Monica Library? Years ago she moved to San Fernando Valley with her boyfriend looking for work. He was a union welder for 30 years. The work ended and because of [...]
John
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness
Tweet Most of us like to run into old friends. I know I do. But yesterday, although it was good seeing people I had met over a year ago, it wrecked me knowing their situation has not changed. Probably even has become worse. In November of 2008 I was just starting InvisiblePeople.tv. It was maybe [...]
