Not houselessness itself. Not it's conditions and causes and rates and all that. No demographics either.

There's a side to houselessness that people do not see. Most interactions between housed and dirty besides police is charitable shit; He told me God loves me and gave me a $20. It doesn't often go beyond that, except maybe the occasional conversation between a homeless person and the person behind the counter at 7-11.

My best friend is a chronically houseless person. He has a sick fucking camp and doesn't give a fuck about being homeless.

I'm either friends with or acquaintances with like several dozen unhoused people who regularly come into the store I work graveyard at, on east side Portland, Oregon. We They are a vibrant culture of their own, living in the shadows of a day that doesn't belong to us them. I have friends with cool personalities and backgrounds. I want to use this as an opportunity to teach you guys about unhoused people, the culture they have; what they do, and all that shit.

So yeah, ask away.

    • c6cain6jih6d [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      There's a lot of unhoused people who actively help other unhoused people as a form of mutual aid, as in not for barter or whatever. My friends/campmates are like that.

      There's also "street moms."

      But mostly we have a pretty vibrant mixed barter economy/fiat system where bottle returns (in states that have that) and drugs are currrncy and even used to value other forms of tender.