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You are the perfect person I want to have a conversation with. Assuming we are operating under a similar definition of homelessness which people find to be a pr
by gunshai 5y ago
You are the perfect person I want to have a conversation with. Assuming we are operating under a similar definition of homelessness which people find to be a problem, IE dispersed living on public property within city limits.
How did this happen? What became a barrier for work mainly? Skills, network ? Did you find groups of other homeless similar to yourself or did you isolate yourself.
- DoreenMichele 5y agoYou might be interested in some of my blogs: https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/ https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/ https://sandiegohomelesssurvivalguide.blogspot.com/ https://sandiegohomelesssurvivalguide.blogspot.com/ http://whathelpsthehomeless.blogspot.com/ http://whathelpsthehomeless.blogspot.com/
- nate_meurer 5y agoIn addition to the links she gave, you can look back at her HN comments. Lots of good stuff here.
- nobody9999 5y ago>How did this happen? What became a barrier for work mainly? Skills, network ? Did you find groups of other homeless similar to yourself or did you isolate yourself. Not GP, but the biggest barrier to work I had was not having a regular place to shower or keep clean clothes. For some strange reason, employers don't like it if you're unbathed and in dirty clothes. I was never able to figure out why. Perhaps you could opine on that?
- gunshai 5y agoSarcasm aside, I do remember reading and talking to formally homeless folks saying that they would commonly have gym memberships for this very reason. Second to that at least in the city I live in, many barbershops and dry cleaners offer free service to homeless who are going to be interviewed.