The Reproach Of Homelessness

There ARE Solutions!

Derek London
8 min readJul 24, 2021
Image from Pixabay.com

These are not individuals who have just screwed up their own lives. We are responsible for them.

Not long ago, I interviewed a fellow YouTube creator, Séan, from the channel Yahweh out there. Part of that dialog was centred on the tragic quandary of homelessness. It’s a topic I’ve always cared about, but especially since I moved here to Victoria, BC, where there is a heartbreaking number of street people.

Séan was always a productive member in society — hard-working, honest, reliable, jovial, fathered two amazing kids— until he fell upon hard-times resulting from unaddressed psychological struggles that he details in our visit:

He managed to get back on his feet several years ago. He was down and out for a significant interval of time, though. Séan is a good man. We’ve become pals over the past couple years since we discovered each other on YouTube. He doesn’t fit the image or stereotype of one you’d expect to find in such sore straits.

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Derek London

Editor for Diogenes Lounge. Writer for ILLUMINATION and a YouTube personality. Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHBpAoID8i6tqz6ksLSY8ow