15 Surprising Facts about Life in a Homeless Shelter

I’ve been homeless for 2 months now. My city’s shelter is not what I thought it would be.

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Toward the end of 2023, I lost the downtown apartment home I’d had for 21 years, no longer able to pay rent. For more than a month, I crashed on friends’ couches when I could. When I could not, I wandered the streets all night…