“The first night I slept in a bed after sleeping in my car for a year, I could not sleep. I literally was crying because I missed the car.”
: how Ethan Ward went from living in his car to reporting on homelessness. And why he doesn’t want you to think he’s pulled himself up by his bootstraps. Our conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.
And I also was not able to find work in L.A. consistently that was able to keep up with the rising cost of housing. So, for example, when I moved into my apartment—one of the last apartments I lived in before I became unhoused—my rent was like $1,400. Five years later when I was leaving that apartment and about to start the process of living in my car, my rent was like $1,950. And my wages certainly had not kept up with that growing cost of rent.
Yes, and I feel so much empathy because I remember what it was like to have to fight every day to just keep that light switch turned on in my head that says I care—I care about my parents, I care about going to take a shower, I care about showing up to class, I care about turning in this paper. I care about these things because it is so easy to just be like, I don’t care anymore.Ethan Ward wasn’t always so sure that he was going to cover homelessness as a journalist.
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