Chris, 36

Published: May 27, 2009

It’s very hard to be homeless. It’s very demeaning. You’re invisible. Nobody can see you, because they don’t want to. Society needs to jump in here. Feeding once a day is not enough. More shelters are needed, a lot more, and the police need to back off. It shouldn’t be illegal to sleep in your car. You can only stay in a campground for so long. And you can’t put a pup tent up on private property, not legally anyway. And you eat so unhealthy when you’re homeless! You get some change, you grab a burger. I mean, where are you going to cook, without utensils and a stove? You’re not going to starve to death in America, but malnutrition is a factor. And not enough sleep. You have to be watchful at night, especially if you’re a girl. It’s very unsafe, sleeping out. Homelessness turns you into a criminal. You’ll steal, shoplift, anything to survive. And you start using drugs, even if you didn’t before, you start self-medicating. Anything to kill the pain.

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