Every body has their own definition for homeless. Here are some definitions from some of us.

   Jordan: homeless to me is not having a home or a roof over your head and no money, when you have no family, no friends also no job. But if you don’t want this to happen to you don’t mess around when you are in Jr. High and High School so you can go to college and not be on the streets like the other bums. Right now I live in a hotel called the Pickwick hotel and I don’t want to end up on the streets either.

   Justin: Being homeless to me mean that you have no place to go and no one you know. I know this because I have been sort of homeless before. We sort of lived in a garage. I really didn’t like it at all. To me homeless is living in a garage or shelters or hotels. I am, well I wouldn’t say homeless but sort of poor right now because I live in the Pickwick Hotel. I hove stayed in so many hotels and motels, and at one point in my life we stayed in a garage, like I said. It all started when my family lost our truck. It was really all my fault. I had no seat belt and got up when the cops where there. Ever since then it went down hill from there.

   Riley: To me homeless is somebody who doesn’t have any money, a home to go to, food, or transportation. To me that’s homeless. To me homeless is a person who lives in shelters, hotels, cars, or the streets where you see them most of the time

Rodney: To me homeless is kind of scary because at night while you are going to sleep there could be gang bangers beating up people and killing people over a stupid color, most of the time they kill for no apparent reason. I also think homeless means people sleeping in cars, people that dig in the trash to find some means for food. I think the people that stay in shelters are considered homeless as well.

Anthony: I think that homeless means that a person has no home and is living on the streets with any food they can get or cloths or blankets to stay warm in the cold weather. They have to beg for money or food, some people just walk by when the homeless ask them if they have any spare change or something to eat the person keeps on walking without saying anything. Homeless people walk around downtown just with socks on or bare foot, sometimes in tore up tennis shoes, some bad tore up looking cloths. Some try to get in shelters, but most shelters are over flowing with homeless people so most of them stay on the streets.

Daniel: To me homeless is someone that struggles every day just to get something to eat, weather it’s a little piece of bread that they found on the ground or what they bought with the money they got from begging for it. Someone that sleeps in parks, in parking lots, on the sidewalks, on beaches, in cars, and in shelters, surprising but some people in hotels. Some people that live in hotels are there because of the shelter they were staying at.

   Some shelters get so full that they get vouchers for hotels so you can stay there for at least 3 up to 5 weeks. So that way the person can save up money. It’s hard being homeless, especially to kids on the streets. Holiday Inn and Cabo Cafe have gotten together and opened up a school for homeless kids. That’s why you don’t see that many kids on the streets downtown. I bet if that school wasn’t there, kids would be doing drugs and getting arrested for stupid stuff. 

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