TIN: Setbacks on the long road to housing
Photo by Tasha A.F. Lemley
Rena is a retired sex worker, and newly sober after what she describes as a 'rock bottom relapse.' She says the metro employee she talked to, “wanted to be honest with me and let me know that basically there's nothing they can do because I have a family...I'm not in bad enough shape for help — even though I will be homeless with nowhere to sleep with nowhere to put my things on the 29th.
And don't do me any favors. I'm willing to put the work in. Give me some solutions. You gave me no solution. You gave me a white card with a number on it. A phone number. A handwritten phone number.
And said, 'don't give up.'"
This scene I produced is part 1 of a 9-part series on homelessness called In My Place on This Is Nashville.