Derrick made his living as a professional photographer. After Derrick lost his photo gear when his car was stolen, life snowballed down into crisis, and he ended up living in a tent homeless in Venice Beach, California.
We first met Derrick when filming our mini-documentary featuring Venice Family Clinic doing street medicine. You can watch that here: • Meet The Doctor Who's ... . Derrick talked about how you can't lock a tent, so you have to take everything of value with you when you live for any length of time.
The night before this interview, it had rained really hard. Derrick was cleaning up his area the best he could. In his almost two years of homelessness, Derrick has learned a lot about survival. What tents are best. How to use tarps and clamps. Where to place your tent to keep it dry.
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There is a direct correlation between what the general public perceives about homelessness and how it affects policy change. Most people blame homelessness on the person experiencing it instead of the increasing shortage of affordable housing, lack of employment, childhood trauma, lack of a living wage, or the countless reasons that put a person at risk. This lack of understanding creates a dangerous cycle of misperception that leads to the inability to effectively address the root causes of homelessness.
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