I Have Been Homeless

I've never been wanted. From thirteen years old I've been shuffled from parent to parent (Virginia and Alabama) and even lived with my aunt for a while (in South Carolina).

I got kicked out before I was eighteen. I moved in with a...

I was homeless from an early age and it's just something you never forget it sticks with you it in prints itself on your soul. You find after awhile nobody really notices you your invisible to everyone except your own kind.I grew up on...

I lived on the streets and in and out of homeless shelters for seven months. I was evicted from my flat ended up on the streets stayed as permanently drunk as I could, and thought to myself, " Thats it! I'm staying just...

I have never been homeless except by choice.
There are times that I get the wind in my hair and hit the happy trail and meander here and there...
There are options for this squirrel {nests} in several locations.
It has been ...

There seems to be a trend in my life, and it seems to come back to me off and on-full circle.

This trend isn't necessarily getting evicted from homes due to lack of paying rent. For me the reason I have been on the streets has been...

ok since my recent update with me moving from michigan after my homeless situation i moved in with my grandma about 4 months ago and rectly about a month ago she kicked me out for speaking my mind and telling her how she treats me like...

Keeping warm,
safe, secure.
That's important to me.
Warm in bed.
Safe at home.
Secure in my Lord's love for me.
Keeping warm,
safe, secure.
That's important to me.

It's pretty simple, the things that are important to you, when all...

My family had a fallout..I was banned from my grandmothers house because I wasn't giving her my entire paycheck when I was working, and raising my cousins baby. It was November and snowy..I slept between pop machines and a wall outside...

I've been on both sides of this issue, as receiver and provider. I was homeless for six years. I usually stayed in shelters because I felt safer there than on the streets. At least the shelters were staffed, and they were relatively...

I never thought becoming employed again would be so difficult after the lay off. At that job, I had to tell employees they lost their jobs, then I lost mine.Now, my older son and I are eating out of cans and sleeping in my vehicle that...

I was homeless for two years because that was the lifestyle my ex-husband loved.
I learned to make crafts and sell them at the Saturday & Sunday markets, and also at a Wednesday market in another town.
We slept at rest stops, and...

I was homeless after I was removed from the girls group home I had been living in Beaumont as a kid by aunt and then abandoned in houston. Covenant House picked me up and was going to send me to CPS and press charges on my aunt. My...

The worst part of being homeless was the cold. 
Summertime homelessness, where I live, was lovely.  I got lots of sun, there were tons of things going on, places to go, people to see....lots of options on where to sleep.  People were...

There was a recent controversy on here recently involving my response to a homicidal homeless man. So for those that haven't experienced it, I'll try to shed a little light. When you are living pay check to pay check, it only takes a...

Well since the last time i got on here alot has happened. i was kicked out of my grandma's and got raped by a 60 year old man and put in a shleter and got kicked out for doing drgs and cutting again then went to another shelter and...

Five years after I was married, we became homeless. We lived in the car and sometimes in a tent or under a bridge. I was taught growing up that you stand by your husband. My husband and I may have been homeless but he still worked. He...

The first time I was homeless was December of '91.  It's not good being homeless during a Michigan winter lol.  I ended up being homeless for more than 3 months that time.  Then I ended up homeless again in the fall of...

homelessness... please, someone can give me some causes of homelessness... and how to stop it please

I begged God for 30 years for a husband and children. But I had no idea what I prayed for would be the worst 14 years and biggest mistake of my life. I thought my 4 year battle to divorce him would be the beginning of the end that...