With a rocky economy and rising rent costs across the nation, the possibility of becoming homeless is becoming easier and easier. The struggle for survival while living on the streets takes a toll on a person’s mental and physical health. For some people, hope is the only thing they can hold onto. For many people in this article, it took dedication and a helping hand from others to get them back on their feet. Get your tissues ready as we present to you, 20 Homeless Experience Stories That’ll Move you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQbGuqCsVb8 After bouncing from motels to the streets Jessica found salvation at Bridges Safehouse. With help from her new community, she was able to begin taking college classes to become a Nurse. However, it was during his lowest hour that he finds a rich inner life and hope. His journey is an inspiration for readers and it helps breakdown the stereotype of homelessness. After moving to Atlanta he tried to produce a play he had written but it failed six times. With no money, he was forced to live in his car. Finally, in 1998, the play became a hit and his entertainment career took off from there. Soon after, he was evicted from their apartment and were forced to sleep in subway stations when they had nowhere else to go. Chris Gardner fought for success. He took a nonpaid internship with a prestigious brokerage firm which led him to become a multi-millionaire stockbroker on Wall Street. He admits to having to sleep on park benches in London when times got really rough. Through it all, Craig made it to the top. He now has a net worth of 95 million dollars. Oher bounced around from different foster homes until the Tuohy family came into his life. Their love and care for him helped Oher to succeed in becoming a college football star and a top NFL draft pick. They roamed from place to place. Eventually, they moved into a tent on his sister’s property. Carrey admits that it was during this difficult time when he truly understood the value of his humor. Other people’s experience is the best teacher,” says Jones. He also taught Andrews to do extraordinary things and to try things that not the average person was doing. Lastly, Jones taught him perspective. The mind can turn any seemingly negative action into a positive experience. Andy Andrews is now a New York Times best-selling author and speaker. With nowhere to go, he took to the streets. It took his alcoholism to get worse before he finally found an alcohol support group. His life was slowly coming together. It was while volunteering at a political campaign where O’dea met his future business partner, Tom Culligan. Together they created the Second Cup, one of the biggest Canadian Coffee Chains. He admits that he had to steal food from a grocery store to help feed his family. Even though times were extremely tough for him and his family he knew he had to keep fighting. “Hold onto that fundamental quality of faith. Have faith that on the other side of your pain is something good,” says Johnson. He is now known as one of the top superstars of Hollywood. While living a life of instability William and his mother found comfort from Ms Hedda, founder of the Hunts Point Alliance for Children. With her help William’s mother was able to find a job and William got accepted into a semi-boarding high school. Moving from place to place put a strain on her and her family. Zen became engaged as a peer advocate in hopes to lead a positive change for housing challenged individuals. Invisible People is a website that educates the public about people who have been affected by homelessness. It also provides information that helps you get involved in your local community. It was at Fox Laundry where Mimi was able to meet a lot of kind-hearted people. One of those friends was Zach Galifianakis, a famous actor. He admired Mimi’s charm and charisma their friendship grew and Galifianakis gifted Mimi with her own apartment across the street from Fox Laundry. Gio was able to get the attention of Rich Smith, Founder of Random Acts of Kindness Everywhere, who gave him a sewing machine and materials for his project. His parents from Korean instilled the notion never to waste food. That trait has inspired him to distribute over 250,000 pounds of food to people in need. That one lunch meeting turned into a friendship. With a little help and guidance from August Atkinson was able to land a job at Safeway. From this experience, August got to see first hand that spreading a little love could dramatically change a person’s life. In the later years of his life, he has made over 8,000 hats. “God had a plan for your life. You can see it in every step you took. I’m the hat man. I just did what I liked to do, help people,” says Boogaart. He believes reporting on his homelessness experience can help expand knowledge and peoples understanding of the issue.
