Homelessness is not a disease

How would you feel? Down to your last dollar, no money for rent, no place to keep your possessions – what you have left anyway, and no one to turn to who will help you. Out on the street.

Strangers that once smiled at you as you pass by now look away purposefully out of uncomfortability and shame. You are now a non-person.Looked at as some how a lesser being. Are you not the same person you were a few months ago? You are – but that’s not what people now see.

Why won’t they look at you? – Fear? Disgust? Anger? …read more