What it’s Like Living in a Homeless Shelter

By someone who’s been doing just that in a major U.S. city

Keizers, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

In December of last year, I lost my apartment in the downtown of a major U. S. city. For the first time in my life, I was without a home.

I crashed on two friends’ couch a little past the first of the year, but I was in the way and I knew it. It was time for me to…