“For what I’ve learned is, in this world world of charity mostly orchestrated by systematic responses, is that people experiencing homelessness are constantly given a negative answer to really the most important personal questions upon which their mental health depends: Who am I? What am I?
These questions can’t be answered by professionalized care, for they have to do with a sense of belonging, of counting, and of meaning-making."
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