“I wanna run away and go home! And where the hell am I gonna go to? I don’t have no home!”
Heartbreaking and desperate yet deeply humanizing. As someone who’s worked in homelessness services for close to six years now, the most truthful* overview of the topic and, even more importantly, most intimate portrait of its casualties I’ve yet come across.
Insane that it a) remains as pertinent as ever and b) is older than I am.
*There are certainly more detailed overviews, but let’s not lose the forest for the trees. Homelessness in the US is driven by, well, capitalism at its core, but on its social surface by a ghoulish sense of entitlement and resentment that would make us…