I’d been volunteering for a couple of years now, so I knew most of the homeless in the area, at least by sight. He was wearing navy overalls that seemed clean enough, and he looked healthy. In fact, he seemed pretty fit. Of course, that didn’t mean much. I knew by now that anyone could become homeless, sometimes overnight. In this day and age, it didn’t take much for your life to suddenly take an unexpected turn: underlying mental health issues, abuse, losing your job, spiralling debt, even a bad break-up. The richer the country, the thinner its safety nets.
Tell me!
