Truth is believe it or not 90% of Americans are living pay check to pay check, which means if a few things go wrong, we could ourselves, be homeless. Over the past two years through this amazing journey I’ve been on with BCG, I can’t tell you how many homeless people I’ve met that are just like me and you. I’ve met nice looking men from all over the country, when I ask them why they’re homeless, it can be as simple as I lost my job, my girlfriend kicked me out, I have a record and I can’t find steady employment. I’ve met women and children who are sleeping on the streets, in tents, or in their cars and what’s worse is they work 40 hours a week, they are working and homeless. Let’s not even begin to talk about the number of homeless veterans, who have fought in wars and are homeless, truly it makes me sick to my stomach. There are so many different levels to homelessness in the US and my lingering is why?!
On any given night there are 643,067 people experiencing homelessness in the United States; of that number more than 44% are African-American. According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, African-Americans, while only representing 11% of the general population, represent the highest homeless population in the country! Why do you think this is? What is it like to be homeless? Have you ever wondered what they go through, how do they get treated? How do they survive? What better way to get the answers to these questions, than to truly be homeless for a night?
On Friday, May 16th, 2014 in 17 cities across the nation including Atlanta, Orlando, Nashville, Phoenix and Brooklyn, NY, we did it. Check out this video shot in Atlanta.
