Those who recover from their addictions no longer see homelessness the same way. “Once I started to heal myself,” said a formerly homeless man, “I knew I had to work with this so-called homelessness problem, to get some of those people suffering out there into treatment and help them turn their heads around.” “So-called?” asked Gowan. “Ain’t no homelessness problem in my opinion,” the man replied. “The problem is addiction, period. Even those people that have schizophrenia or something else like that, generally you find they have a big problem with addiction as well.”
