Archive for February, 2011
Heather
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2010
Tweet Heather is a single mom with two daughters doing the very best she can to survive homelessness. We met this past fall in San Jose, California. For five years they have been in and out of shelters and hotels. Heather says it is really hard to get housing without a job, and although she [...]
Bob
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2010
Tweet Bob is 69 years-old, and homeless! Maybe it’s just me being overly sensitive to my own age and financial situation, but nothing bothers me more than senior citizen homelessness! Bob has been on the streets for five years. The night before this interview Bob slept under a bridge. Overall Bob is happy. He spends [...]
Angie and Matt
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2010
Tweet At the time I interviewed Angie and Matt near St Louis, Missouri, they had been living in this small hotel room for eleven months. Weekly rate hotels have become the new low-income housing replacing the massive housing projects we saw decades ago. This hotel was one of the better ones, many are dirty and [...]
Michael
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2010
Tweet I met Michael in New York City. He had a job and an apartment, but when the economy fell out he was back on the streets homeless. Michael is just trying to survive. He says shelters are either full or they are filled with people using drugs. He rather just have a job! Michael [...]
Paul
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness
Tweet Imagine the cold weather outside as your alarm clock in the morning. Well, that’s exactly what Paul told me when we met in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I was in town this week helping 100,000 Homes and Albuquerque Heading Home survey the city’s homeless population to house 75 of the most vulnerable. The next day [...]
Angelo
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness
Tweet I met Angelo on the streets of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Angelo went to prison, and when he got out, there was nothing for him. He tried to find work, but like so many other men and women coming out of institutions now currently homeless, employment was impossible to find. I happened to be in [...]
