Homeless people have always been seen as a disgrace or in some negative way because people feel like they don’t contribute to our society in any way. They are often seen as useless and just a waste of space. Homeless people have gone through many things which has led them to being homeless. Sometimes it’s not always their fault. Our society has the tendency to marginalize the homeless population as a whole and consider all of them the same. People have created single stories over the years and those are the ones that we usually hear of. Not everyone understands that most of them are false with little truth behind them. People don’t know what homeless people are really like. We don’t hear of homeless people being good people with warm hearts or that they do good things for people.

 

Our society always see the homeless as criminals, crack heads and lazy people  that are up to no good. But in reality, not even more than half of them are bad. David Raether had everything he could possibly want but when he was laid off everything went south. He lost everything he had and to this day hasn’t gained much of it back. But David isn’t a crack head or criminal. He is a good person but is homeless when he can’t come up with the rent. Our society sees homeless people as scary monsters that you have to stay away from. Just because they don’t have as much as we do, doesn’t mean they are any less than anyone. They are just unfortunate that they don’t have the things we do. Homeless people are good people that really do care for others. Homeless people are very independent and they all have their own stories. There are homeless people that have hit rock bottom which caused them to be homeless; but they didn’t let that stop them. They got help and are sober now. Brenda Combs became homeless because she couldnt help but be addicted to crack. She was on the streets for a couple years but decided to get clean and turned her life around.

 

There are many counter stories out there that people have to take into consideration about homeless people. They have great stories to tell and they are good people. Not all homeless people are what you may think. Next time you see a homeless person don’t be scared to ask them a couple of questions or just talk to them about how they are doing. We have to do something about the single stories people have engraved into each other’s brains about the homeless.