'Street people' - Who are they?

by Joanie Liesenfelt

Street People - Who Are They? In Denver, 40% of the homeless "street people" are employed. And of those, many are two parent families with children. What's with that, Uncle Sam? "On The Street" I have changed the nam...read more

by Anthony Gomez

Living on the streets of any city in America is a traumatic experience. Even in a plush resort town like Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the homeless suffer greatly. The hunger and deprivation, the exposure and humiliation, and ...read more

by Kelly Robinson

If you think that not being able to bathe or have fresh clothes when you are homeless is your biggest problem, you are sadly mistaken. Those are the easy parts. Staying safe, fed, warm and dry are the real challenges. T...read more

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by Candy Jules

Street people are those who have no home, no one to care for them, but each other, one's some look down on, because they don't fit the profile of a rich selfish society. The street people are constantly hungry. They ta...read more

by Kurt Stricker

HOMELESSNESS: Who do you help? It's 1948 and Andy has been traveling all night. Exhausted, he moves toward the open sliding door of the train as it slows through the modest Iowa town. He pans back and forth looking fo...read more

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by Lisalove

Street people? Why do they call them that? Is that what they called me because I left an abusive relationship and had no where to stay. I lived in my car and parked it by the interstate at night because it was a rest area ...read more

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by Josephine Lee

Street people who are they? They are the anonymous people that we walk past every day, they are the people who all have their own story to tell but have no one to tell it to. They are the they are the mother, father, gra...read more

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by Michael Allen Carvell

Street people are not just the homeless people real street people set and l;ive by the rules of the street. Street people usually start out young people who have left school and home for the street life or were just tossed...read more

by Sean McGoldrick

"We're not living in the real world" I was on the bus on the way home this evening. Everything was as usual. I was plugged into my MP3 player which was pumping out Blondie, minding my own business on the bus, staring ou...read more

by Chuck Hinson

When you're downtown in a larger city for whatever reason, chances are you'll see at least a few raggedy-looking people with tousled hair and vacant expressions on most of their faces. Some are unshaven men, but there are ...read more

by Dawne Johnson

Street people are,in my experience,people who suffer from addiction,emotional illness or have become unconstitutionally incapable of holding a job or finding gainful employment.Amazingly enough these people are stro...read more

by Jade Wiki

Street people are just people like you and me. They have families that love them in a lot of cases. Some have mental illnesses that keep them on the streets and others are their own worst enemies. I think a lot of people a...read more

by E. V. SHAW

I was fifty-five when I was on the streets of the town where I had lived for forty-five years. Thank goodness, I was familiar with the streets. My son and daughter were old enough that they wanted to live with friends, s...read more

by Skathock Motyka

We 'Street People' are society's unfit. Either we succumbed to our own pain or we couldn't fit the 'norm'. When society's 'normal' people (for the purpose of this article, I'm referring to those with housing options) see...read more

by Latoya Lawrence

I know all about the street people. There is not anything that anyone can tell me about them that i don't already know. I grew up around them and i have them on both sides of my family. I could write a book about those in ...read more

by Marc Phillippe Babineau

Street People are people who, either by choice or economic pressures, find themselves with no fixed address, living on the streets. They do not have a roof over their heads, running water, or a fridge full of healthy, nut...read more

by David Whiting

Though now I am living with my father in a hellish, rural part of Northern California, for some time I lived on the streets of San Francisco. I miss The City. For awhile, I was feeling low; the depression had been a rea...read more

by Diane Winters

Most of them are my neighbors, and usually they're no trouble. At least no problem for me. I live on the Avenue you see, and no matter what anyone may say, it's by choice. My choice. Most people, even my family has...read more

by Charlene Vermillion

I had an experience with a street person one time.I was going to the grocery,when I saw this poor pitiful man,he was dirty and he was holding a sign"will work for food."I thought real quick,I need some furniture moved arou...read more

by Aprils Destiny

A street person is someone's mother, someone's father, someone's daughter, someone's son. Street people are my sisters and brothers. I know the drill. I know what most of you will say. They are there, they are street ...read more