Real Stories: Meet Debbie

categories: Interviews, road trip, Stories from the Streets, Tent City Tour

Published September 12, 2009 @ 09:16AM PT

Debbie lives in a tent in a wooded area in Nashville, Tennessee. I met her the week of her 55th birthday.

Sadly, Debbie says she is not new to homelessness. She loves Nashville because she has spent most of her life here, but said she cannot finding housing she can afford.

She just wishes she had someplace safe to live.

Debbie from InvisiblePeople.tv on Vimeo.

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Posted by NORTH COUNTY SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE on 09/15/2009 @ 04:05PM PT
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The major oversight of municipalities when dealing with tent cities is not to respect the independent nature of these people. If they were comfortable living with others or in shelters they would not be in the tent city to begin with.

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Posted by brax peace on 09/16/2009 @ 03:38PM PT
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DEBBIE,

ME AND MY WIFE LESLEY MAURO (LU LU) WISH YOU THE BEST OF LUCK, MY WIFE LIVED THERE WITH YOU FOR 5 MONTHS AND ALSO KNOWS THE MAN YOU ARE WITH CHEESEBURGER, ARE HEART GOES OUT TOO YOU SWEETHEART EVEN MORE KNOWING THAT YOU ARE WITH HIM. YOU CAN DO IT BABY, WE LOVE YOU !!!

MATTHEW & LESLEY

NASHVILLE, TN

Posted by MATTHEW MAURO on 11/22/2009 @ 11:15AM PT
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Sixteen years ago, Mark Horvath was homeless on the streets of Hollywood. Today, he works in marketing/communications and is an activist for the homeless. He vlogs at invisiblepeople.tv and blogs at hardlynormal.com.