Justice
A Retirement Home for the Homeless
The unique challenges of helping the elderly if they've lived most of their life on the street.
"Before I came here, I was living on the street six or seven years," Leonard says. "I was one of those people you pass by on the sidewalk. I guess I was fighting the whole world at that time."
Leonard came in off the streets of New York three years ago, after a caseworker from the Coalition for the Homeless spent months working to convince him. "His name was Jason," says Leonard with a smile. "He kept stopping by to see me." Eventually, says Leonard, something clicked, and he realized it was time to come in.