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tazkcmo

(7,300 posts)
12. Very kind of you
Thu Feb 27, 2020, 01:38 PM
Feb 2020

Those cards really make a difference.

In my case, I received assistance through Catholic charities and the VA. There are actually a percentage of homeless in every city that are what you would call professionals and that they are employed but choose to be homeless. The usual method is through temp agency and a fake address from an abandoned property.

The library is a main fixture in most homeless people's lives. It's warm when it's cold outside, there's a public restroom, the internet as mentioned before and of course books. You can even sit down and watch a movie.

Libraries maybe a quaint novelty to your modern, connected and employed mainstream person but they are a lifesaver for some of us.

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