Marvell (aka Nice) and Mary

Marvell (aka Nice) and Mary

Their Story: Marvell: I was hit by an RTD bus and couldn’t work for two weeks so I became homeless. After we became homeless, we were struggling for a while. We were harassed by the police, other homeless people. We had a trailer house in North Boulder, livin’ life to...
Kevin

Kevin

His Story: I played a logistics role in the military.  We worked on armoured passenger vehicles. They’d be hit by artillery shells, get damaged, we’d patch ‘em up, send ‘em right back out.  Anyway, I don’t know what it was; I got back, was drinkin’ too much, I guess....
Kevin

Kevin

His Story: I got home from Iraq in 2008, and I was homeless then for a while. Civilian life was a little too slow, so I started working for a motorcycle club in West Virginia.  Then I got sober. I got diagnosed with PTSD so I started working on that. I was sober from...
Kurt

Kurt

His story: Hopefully I can meet up with my mom somewhere down the road. Let her know I’m still safe. Like, people with families are even on the streets nowadays. It wasn’t like that when I was 18. Average day: There are days you really don’t even wanna get up. Really...
RJ (aka Hillbilly)

RJ (aka Hillbilly)

His story: I’ve been doing it on and off for 18 years almost now. Community: We take care of each other; we work as a team.  We’re a crew, and that makes it a lot easier on us.   The fact that there are more abandoned houses than homeless people these days is...
Richard

Richard

His story: Some people come out by choice, I don’t.   About 25 years ago, I got out of the penitentiary and couldn’t get a job because of my record. So I struggled and struggled, did some odd jobs, and it just got so tough I thought I might as well give up.  It’s...
Luke

Luke

His story: I’m from South Louisiana — way down there.  A town called Venice; we drilled for concrete down in the Gulf of Mexico.  I’m 100 percent Cajun. I worked for my dad on the Bayou growin’ up. We lived off crawfish. My parents died in Katrina — I survived. I’ve...
Alex

Alex

His story: I became homeless 7 years ago, I was living in Iowa and I got knocked in the head and just said fuck it, I’m leaving.  I wasn’t homeless then, I was living with a friend. The house got broken into, some meth heads came in trying to take our propane tank....
Donna

Donna

Her story: I was workin’ at Bald Aerorspace, and I lost my job. Lost my apartment. Husband went to jail…again. I got stuck in being homeless — surviving every day of my existence while I was homeless. I did not think about tomorrow — just today. That’s how I...
Sheldon

Sheldon

I’m just trying to do everything I can to get down to my moms funeral. That’s the only reason I’m doing this.