Here's an intimate look into some of the challenges homeless people face when trying to find a home.
Justin Thomas, Danielle Hollowell and Caitlin Sowell sit outside Moni Food Mart with Hollowell's dogs.On a hot day in early November, Justin Thomas, Caitlin Sowell and Danielle Hollowell sat outside the Moni Food Mart at the corner of Marsh Lane and Rosemeade Parkway in northern Dallas. Two young pit bulls named Bruce and Buddy Holly lay beside them. The three are homeless and living in tents at a nearby encampment, but they’re trying to change that.
When the moratorium ended in July 2021, her roommate was prepared to move, but Hollowell wasn’t. That’s when she started living in her car, making deliveries to earn money when she could, but not enough to pay for a new place. Then her car broke down, and she started living in Dallas homeless encampments. To make matters worse, Hollowell said, she later fell down a flight of stairs, injuring her leg and tailbone.
“There’s no help, really, other than a little goody bag once every other week coming from CitySquare,” Hollowell said. CitySquare is a local nonprofit that offers job training, health care, food and housing for the homeless. “I mean, they try to come out here and keep faith, but there’s a whole bunch of us out here that get no help.”
“This problem has been growing for many years, and it is clear that we have to act now to address the myriad causes of homelessness and implement short-term and long-term solutions that provide people with stability and pathways to better lives,” Johnson toldBut this and other programs may not be as quick as the name suggests. Joli Robinson, the CEO of Housing Forward, said it’s better to think of rapid rehousing in the context of the whole homeless response system.
Throughout someone’s time in the R.E.A.L. Time Rapid Rehousing Initiative, their case worker is supposed to help them become self-sufficient. “The end goal is self-sustainability, but it looks different for everyone,” Robinson said. To one individual, it may look like moving in with friends or family. For another, it may look like finding a steady job.
He served about a year in jail for theft and said he’s been on the straight and narrow since his release in 2016, but his criminal record has made landing a job and getting back on his feet tough. “The Office of Homeless Solutions, they come out here and we’re already out here with everything that we have,” Thomas said. “And they come out here and wipe our camps out, bring bulldozers, and all that stuff — just take everything. Then we have to turn around and reacquire everything. They don’t give us enough time to get everything else. Ten minutes to get everything we could and get out before they brought the bulldozer in. They say they’re trying to help us, but they’re really not.
“No one wants to be accosted. They’re trying to come to the realization that they do need the help, but then they’re dealing with angry cops.” McKee, who served as a corporal in the U.S. Marines during the Gulf War, was buried in the Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery in November. She said many organizations that provide services to the homeless, like local nonprofit and shelter OurCalling, are too far away to help.Sowell responded: “Yeah, go figure. We don’t actually live under bridges.”
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