One of the things I have decided to do with this blog is write a series of articles, which I am going to call “A Survival Guide to Homelessness” or something like that, I may tweek the name a bit later on, but for now that’s what I’m calling it.
The goal of this series is to help other folks who’ve for whatever reason found themselves homeless. I know when I first became homeless I didn’t have a clue what to do or who to turn to. Never having been homeless before, I had no experience at it, nor had I ever given homelessness any thought. Being that becoming homeless had been caused by a flood (not financial hardship, as is the reason for most folks becoming homeless) I had no warning and no time to plan, and becoming homeless was completely unexpected for me.
In talking with others in the 5 years since I first became homeless, I have found that many become homeless due to debts and foreclosure and thus have many weeks, sometimes months to prepare for being homeless. They get their car ready to live in, divid stuff out to family and storage units, and have a scheduled “plan of action”. For most however, homelessness was sudden and unexpected: hurricanes, tornadoes, fire, illness, laid off from work, and as in my case a flood. One day everything was fine and the next day every thing was gone. It is for these people I write this series: for those who had no plan, no expectation of becoming homeless.
No idea how many articles I’ll end up writing or how often I’ll add new ones to the set, but I’ll always add “Survival Guide to Homelessness” to the title so that you will know the article is part of that series.
I actually can see myself doing several different series of articles here, on various topics, as I already mentioned before I’ll be doing an RV living series as well, and a Homeless with Pets series later on, as well as a Cooking without Electricity series too.
But anyways, there you have it, one of the things to be watching for as this blog progresses.
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