“We’ve been residing here at 23rd avenue and east 12th, we call it tent village.”
“Most of us have known each other a long time, and some of us are just meeting each other.”
“You know when you’re homeless you should be just, just for the fact that you don’t have a place to stay, you look at the fact that you don’t have a little nothing, but your heart has more than what you think.”
“A lot of us don’t have family at all not because we choose not to contact them or keep in touch.”
“A lot of us don’t have family support because what you decide, your lifestyle, which it doesn’t consist of them.”
“This is the only place we live, some of us cant afford it.”
“Some of us just have a little bit to give towards our housing.”
“A lot of us would love to have stability because we used to have it before and we’ve enjoyed it.”
“We lost contact with all that, that doesn’t mean that we don’t know body, that we don’t need anything at all. “