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Originally Posted by muertecaza
Under that definition I guess I have experienced homelessness in my life. But I do not find it a particularly useful definition.
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Me too, I guess.
Back in college, I never got on the ball fast enough to find a living situation for one summer. By the time it actually confronted me and I was like a week away from not having a roof over my head, two friends who had an apartment with a screened in back porch were like,
"hey man, if you wanna crash on our back porch for the summer, cool with us".
So that's what I did.
It was a very temporary stop gap set-up that had a clear end point when I moved into another apartment on a lease with another friend for the following school year.
Besides, if all else had failed and I was literally sleeping on park benches and shit, I woulda gone back to Chicago for the summer and lived with my parents.
Those kinds of make-shift living arrangements that young people do when they're first starting to live quasi-independently are not the same thing as actually being for-real homeless, IMO.