Home under the bridge

A child's bicycle, a child's jacket. A black lace robe. A sleeping bag. A bicycle helmet and some purple-and-white-silk hair clips. These and some plastic bags wrapped in tarpaulins are chained to a No Parking sign near a series of overpasses next to a church.

The care with which it's all roped together and balanced on a small shopping cart says to me that this is someone's home. I made four more pictures of it as an illustration of the difference between homeless and houseless. This family has created a home on the road, though apparently they have no house to live in. No one was at home this afternoon. As I write this, it is 28 degrees F, -2 C. Some of the local churches allow houseless people to sleep in their recreation rooms at night. I hope this family is able to take refuge in the church near where they parked their home.

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