Archive for August, 2010
Jean and her children
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2010
Tweet After walking out of this hotel room I broke down. To be honest, I don’t know how Jean does it all. She tries to be a good mother to her five children. Every day, even in the Missouri rain, she rides a bicycle to her minimum wage job. But minimum wage is not enough [...]
Candace and her children
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2010
Tweet This is the real face of homelessness that is rarely seen. Candace lives in a weekly rate hotel with her four children in Wentzville, Missouri. Even the federal definition of homelessness does not see this family making all the numbers the government publishes on family and child homelessness at best a good guess. The [...]
Dianna
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2010
Tweet Dianna just landed a new job but that may not be enough. She lives in a weekly rate, rundown hotel and will be homeless again by the end of the week. Dianna is single with no children and there is very little support. She keeps fighting for a better life, yet in today’s economic [...]
Emil
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2010
Tweet Emil is what the media has dubbed an “economic homeless”, which is a term I hate because I am close to being one myself. We met in St Petersburg, Florida, where is has lived on and off the streets for two years now.
Daphne
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2010
Tweet “Things got complicated” is how Daphne describes living homeless. She was laid off then unemployment checks stopped. Living outside homeless is not camping. If you are the outdoors type and enjoy camping you know it’s choice. After a few days or a week you can go back to living with a roof, shower, fridge [...]
Richard
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2010
Tweet Richard is living in the woods outside Sanford, Florida. He lost his job because of health issues, eventually ending up living on the streets. The only work he can find is one day a week at an auto auction. Live is bleak, yet Richard says there is always hope.
Ed
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness
Tweet Ed moved to New Orleans because of a new job. Homelessness was never part of the plan. Even with a college education he can’t find work. Ed talked about the New Orleans Mission recent decision to charge people $5 a night. Yes, $5 is not a lot of money. To most people anyway. When [...]
Magic
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2010
Tweet I hope you see what I see. I met Magic in New Orleans. For some time no one was even approaching her. I am sure most people look at people like Magic with disgust. What I see is a girl who grew up hard on the streets having to do things to survive that [...]
Dennis
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness
Tweet The eyes say it all. I literally can feel Dennis’s pain. He got out of prison and moved to New Orleans. All of his relatives are dead so Dennis has lived on the streets homeless for 10 years now. Dennis says he’s making the best out of a bad situation. No one should live [...]
Dave
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness
Tweet As I was walking up to the area in New Orleans where Dave and around a dozen other homeless people were sitting on a sidewalk the local police were making them move. At first I thought how rude. It was over 100 degrees and they were trying to find shade by a local church. [...]
