Homeless Shelters Can Be a Ticket to a New Life. But, There's Not Enough and the Process Can Be Grueling.
Kevin Stuart had once accepted his homelessness as a fact of life. He even preferred it. On the streets, he could do meth without worrying about work. So, unless the weather was bad, he had no reason to go to a shelter. In 2019, though, he decided enough was enough. He wanted his life back, but getting back on the straight and narrow meant he'd need resilience. He recalled two months he spent in a shelter. There, the staff eventually told him they needed to reassess his priority status, a fact that frustrated him. "I threw my hands up," he told the
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