How to Get a Homeless Verification Letter
If you’re experiencing homelessness for the first time and you’ve realized that you need to get a homeless verification letter, it can be a daunting process if you don’t know where to go or what…
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Where Do Homeless People Go When it Rains?
With all the many challenges that homeless people face in their everyday lives, rain easily tops the list as one of the most difficult to deal with. Weather changes can be particularly brutal for homeless…
What It’s Like to Sleep on Buses When Homeless
While living homeless and on the streets, sleeping on city buses or other forms of public transportation is often the only choice one has when no other options are available. It’s a nightmare scenario that…
Homeless Shelters at Risk for COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the loss of income and employment wages for millions of people who are out of work or whose businesses have been affected. This means that many people are now at…
Homeless After a Prison Release: Statistics and Options
Living as an inmate incarcerated in jail or prison is bad enough, but becoming homeless after this can sometimes be even worse. Those who end up living on the streets with a criminal record can…
How to Declare Yourself as Homeless
Being homeless often means not being a part of normal society and living on the fringes of it. This can mean not working jobs, not paying bills, and not doing all the things that many…
How I Made Money With Fiverr While Homeless
Fiverr is an online gig service which I used when homeless to make extra money while at the library. I was homeless for a long time and used different methods of making money online to…
How to Get Free Food When Homeless
When you’ve become homeless, getting food and not starving to death should be easy for most people to do. I was homeless once upon a time, and I often tell people that during this period…
Do Homeless People Qualify for Medicaid?
Medicaid is a program in the United States intended to help low-income people cover their medical costs, but many homeless people still are not covered by it. Now I don’t know about you, but when…
Where to Shower When You’re Homeless
When regular people in society think of homeless people, they picture the stereotypical homeless person who hasn’t showered in weeks, is wearing torn clothes and is unshaven. This stereotype couldn’t be any further from the…