Yolanda (Full Episode) — FIRSTHAND: Homeless

FIRSTHAND: Homeless is part of the award-winning FIRSTHAND multiplatform, multi-year initiative focusing on the firsthand perspectives of people facing critical issues in Chicago. www.wttw.com/firsthand #FIRSTHANDwttw

Dear Heavenly Father, Please provide this beautiful lady permanent housing and please protect her and others in Jesus mighty name Amen.

even if my mom had to sleep on the floor In my house she s not sleeping out side

To be treated like crap because you don’t have material resources is evil… Period.

🤨 My mother came to live with me 10 years ago. There's no way I'd allow my mother to be on the streets. I thank God 🙌 that he has empowered me to help her. 🎉 She just turned 85 on April 19th. God is good!

I just don't understand why we help other countries but we can't take care of our own people 😞

Most of us are one paycheck away.

It was so hard being homeless in Chicago. My family turned their backs on me and put me down. They wouldn't let me live with them.Talked about behind my back. I lost so much weigh. I almost died three times living on the street. I went from state to state.Churches to get food clothing toiletries. I went to shelters, and it was so dangerous being there. I finally got an apartment and now working on getting a home. It was God who carried me through my whole journey. I forever L♥️ ve my Father for helping me make it through the storm. I thank him daily. I 🙏 every morning before opening my eye and getting out of bed.

This video brought me to tears. Father, provide a safe space for Ms. Yolanda.

There are homeless people who don’t have mental health issues or addiction problems, addiction just compounds the problem. Homelessness can happen to anyone.

That church should be ashamed of themselves for not helping this lady. What is the church for if they can’t help her

I don’t ever look down on anyone because most people these days are one paycheck, medical condition, divorce away from homelessness. When I lived in shelters 20 years ago, I met a CPS teacher who was living in the shelter with me! She fell down some stairs at the brown line stop and broke her leg and missed work and then had to pay alimony in a divorce that rendered her bankrupt. She lost her home then her teaching job. Not all homeless people have mental health or addiction issues.

I'm 50 years old and living in Canada Alberta 🇨🇦I'm willing to retire at 55 if things keep going the way I planned bought my first house last month I'm glad I made a productive decision that has changed my life forever can't be more proud that I'm right now

US govt just approved 91 Billion for Ukraine and Isreal but we can not put tax paying citizens into housing? Edited to add quote Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.[1][5] Dwight D Eisenhower

Her weakness is trying to help everyone more than she helps herself and neglect health etc. There is a balance to everything including a GOOD HEART

I thank Yolanda for sharing her story. Many times I feel like I'm one step away from being homeless

What the general population don't realize is that homelessness can happen to anyone at any time homeless people are still human beings so treat them as such!!

Most folks are one lost paycheck, illness, etc away from being unhoused. Praying for their restoration.

I've been homeless and drug free for 10 months now. Every day is hard, and I have a son I have to take care of. So very proud of all of us that continue to fight thru things without having the drug to get us thru, and proud of the ppl who are just starting out their journey. We do recover.

To throw away her husband ashes is freaking awful. How sad and unimaginable that there are humans walking around like that. No one is perfect. We make mistakes, we learn, we change , and we do better. May the Lord guide and protect her.