Get to know the homeless people you see regularly. “It actually makes a difference in their day, and will help you to understand how people become homeless,” an expert said.
Diana Perez, 29, grew up in Paterson, N.J., with a single mother. She began using drugs as a teen, and upon moving to New York at age 21, she partied and used cocaine heavily.
She worked her way up to a residential-aide job at the shelter, and now works full-time as a shift supervisor while studying human services full-time at Monroe College in the Bronx. She has her own apartment close to work and school, and credits Next Step with helping her land stable employment and housing.
“It’s one night. You’re freezing cold and you get through it, and it’s not too bad,” Littlejohn said. “It hits you when you get back home to your own place and you get showered and changed. … You can’t really imagine doing that again for a second night, or a third.” Get to know the people you see regularly, said Giselle Routhier, the policy director for the New York-based Coalition for the Homeless. “It actually makes a difference in their day, and will help you to understand how people become homeless,” she said.
Better yet, think of the five most influential people you know in your community — like the owner of your company, your pastor or your police-officer friend — and convince them to write to the mayor as well, Berg added.
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