Tag Archives: homelessness
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Admitted!…To a Shelter
Leave a commentFebruary 1, 2016 by poverty2professional
The day I turned 17, I got the weirdest birthday gift of my life: my father and I were admitted to a family shelter. I wondered if this is what it felt like to be admitted to college.
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8 Necessities to Surviving and Escaping Homelessness
Leave a commentJanuary 25, 2016 by poverty2professional
Last week’s post focused on more social and psychological skills related to slogging out of homelessness. Here are the concrete, hold-it-in-your-hands things you’re going to need to actually get out.
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Secrets to Survival
1January 19, 2016 by poverty2professional
When you don’t have the most fundamental resource and all that it provides, how do you identify your resources? How do you escape?
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A Wolf and No Door
Leave a commentJanuary 12, 2016 by poverty2professional
How far away from homelessness are you? If you lost your job tomorrow, do you have enough months’ worth of rent in the bank to hustle a new job?
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Nowhere
Leave a commentJanuary 4, 2016 by poverty2professional
Let’s say you’re homeless. Where do you go? And what do you do?
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Home for the Holidays
1December 22, 2015 by poverty2professional
I double-clutched posting this so close to Christmas given the general weightiness of the blog. Then one of my friends observed, “It’s not like you stopped being homeless for Christmas.”
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Finding Shelter
Leave a commentDecember 8, 2015 by poverty2professional
In the Los Angeles late autumn and winter, temperatures plummet. Cold winter shelters are a desperately needed resource.
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Why P2P?
Leave a commentNovember 20, 2015 by poverty2professional
It’s about this time, in November 2007 and not too far off from Thanksgiving, that my father and I were evicted from our home. …We were homeless.
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