Finding and connecting with homeless people, or formerly homeless people, has become such a valuable, and oftentimes, cathartic experience for me. Discussions about homelessness happening in the media are largely different from those happening between individuals with lived experience. I don’t connect to the media stories very much, and I know a lot of homeless people don’t either.

I often see formerly homeless people portrayed in feel-good stories. In very special cases, a homeless person or family survive homelessness and thrive in their new life with no lingering psychological pain. Truthfully, I’m sure they do live with some level of psychological pain, it’s just not mentioned. And, although these stories may be designed in such a way to inspire hope and a will to give and support homeless services, they can also be very misleading. Stories that describe the savior-complex of homeless service providers, which paint a pretty picture of recovery, are often very far from reality.

Instead, the reality is oftentimes a lifetime of trauma. Yet, we don’t talk very much about homelessness as a cause (not a result) of trauma or mental illness.

BOOM: DOJ finds dossier author Christopher Steele ‘credible’ after 16-hour interview while Trump was in London
Published 5 hours ago on July 9, 2019
By David Edwards


The author of a controversial dossier about Donald Trump and Russia has reportedly been found credible by the Department of Justice.

Politico reported on Tuesday that Christopher Steele had been grilled for 16 hours while the president visited London recently.

Steele was hired by Fusion GPS to conduct opposition research on Trump during the 2016 election. His work was first funded by a conservative activist before later being turned over to the Democratic National Committee and the FBI.