By the numbers as of January 2016:

549,928 people homeless

194,716 people in families are homeless

355,212 are individuals

35,686 unaccompanied homeless youth

39,471 veterans are homeless

Department of Housing and Urban Development Statistics

This situation doesn't define me; it just was a part of me at that moment. But I will take the initiative. I had to get up, get going and make something out of this situation, and take something bad and turn it into something good.
Healing Blues Storyteller Don Miller

National Alliance to End Homelessness

www.endhomelessness.org

I Die a Little