Faces and Voices

While the "face" of homelessness is often a stinky, middle-aged-but-looks-older-than-his-years male with a bottle hidden under his coat and torn dirty clothes a few sizes too the reality is that there are many different faces of homelessness. Every face has a voice and some of these voices can be found in your own living room.

Invisible People is a website that interviews a variety of individuals who are living on the streets. One of the people that they interviewed, Briana, has a blog of her own called Girls Guide to Homelessness. And she isn't the only blogger out there who is currently homeless, there are many, even a website solely dedicated to bloggers who are homeless and a community that is working to compile a list of all blogs that address homelessness. The voices of people who do not fit the stereotype are ringing out loud and clear, we just need to stop and listen.

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I recently ran across Sans Houses on blogger. She's a photographer who photographs homeless individuals and posts the photos with audio clips. The photos are often haunting and the audio clips bring them to life. She's not a frequent poster but when she does post it is worth the wait!

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I just want to highlight a blog that a co-worker recently pointed out. I'm sure that there are dozens of blogs out there but the regularity of this authors posts make this blog a worthwhile read:

The Homeless Guy
(Image from blog)