Homelessness can't simply be wished away

For some people, the line between having and having not is thinner than we’d like to believe.

One not-so-tiny disaster, one troubling financial misstep, one awful decision and what was once there is not anymore and there you are.

And then the troubles build on top of each other, growing and roiling and fulminating like some personal form of nuclear fusion and the bad becomes worse and the worse becomes unimaginable.

We are all convinced we live in a protective little bubble where the truly nasty stuff stays away and afflicts somebody else. Truth is, it doesn’t always happen that way.

Homelessness is a problem everywhere and anywhere in this country. You can ignore it all you like.  You can look the other way or pretend local, state and federal government programs will take care of it so you don’t have to. But, again, it just doesn’t work that way.

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