“I’ve got a roof over my head and that means a great deal…I don’t get locked up. I don’t get arrested like I used to. I used to get arrested quite a bit for public intoxication…I don’t have the desire that I did have to go out and constantly drink to get inebriated so I can cope with the surroundings I was in.”
That’s Gary Waddell, in an interview with Yvette Martinez of WBIR that ran last night. Gary used to be homeless, but has been off the streets now for just over a year.
Read the whole thing, and watch the video too. It’s very cool. Encouraging, too.
Kudos to WBIR, and to the service providers like VMC, KARM, the Salvation Army, and many others who are on the front lines of implementing Housing First.
Props to Gary, too.