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.

  • Awoo [she/her]M
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    4 years ago

    What's the most common thing that put them there?

      • Awoo [she/her]M
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        4 years ago

        That's a shame. I tend to ask the ones I know what happened or what their story is, get some insight into the conditions that are putting people there etc.

        • c6cain6jih6d [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          One common thread I just realized: many of my friends, and myself, became homeless because we became overwhelmed by the material conditions of our lives becoming Hell.

          For us this is our only escape. And it sounds sad but we don't care. We have freedom and we love it.

          I have almost forgotten that people who aren't depressed or have mental illness exist because that's all I've known for so long, like we live on another world.