Homelessness Tag

40% of Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless. If that’s hard so that you can picture, you’re not alone. Katrina Bostick, who began her profession in social work, had seen her fair proportion of human tragedy and yet she still didn’t realize how close she was to the homelessness epidemic. “Like lots of us, I had a particular picture in my head after I heard the term homeless,” Bostick said. “The photographs are devastating—people living in underpasses, sleeping on sidewalks and the like.” For this reason perception, she said she mostly focused on helping other groups that needed assistance other than those that were houseless while completing field work for her master’s degree. But with the...

40% of Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless. If that’s hard so that you can picture, you’re not alone. Katrina Bostick, who began her profession in social work, had seen her fair proportion of human tragedy and yet she still didn’t realize how close she was to the homelessness epidemic. “Like lots of us, I had a particular picture in my head once I heard the term homeless,” Bostick said. “The pictures are devastating—people living in underpasses, sleeping on sidewalks and the like.” For this reason perception, she said she mostly focused on helping other groups that needed assistance other than those that were houseless while completing field work for her master’s degree. But with the...