Levi, we're here in Wichita, Kansas, in a homeless living in a hotel. Tell me about it.
Well, my mom kicked me out a while back when I came down to come stay with her
after spending some time with family up in Omaha and I came back down to stay
with her and her drinking gotten out of control and everything so she kicked me
out and the only place I had left to go was with one of my friends but we both
he was kind of living on the streets too and I didn't mind because we both had a
plan to get back off but right now it's been hard trying to find out how we're
gonna keep a roof over our head and everything I just recently got employed
so hopefully that'll help out a lot. Now were you always in a hotel or were
you? Well since since I got kicked out we've been in the hotel but there's been
some nights where we've had to pretty much all but beg for money to put money
on our room so we didn't get kicked out for the night. Hotel homelessness is
something that's usually not talked about because but it really is I mean
even hot doesn't even bother. It's no different than the only difference between
hotel homeless and living on like living under a bridge or something is yeah
you may have a place that you can go into that there's a roof over your head
but at the same time you still have to worry about rent food and some days it's
harder than others to come by money and food. Well you got to classify hotels too
these places aren't even you know the holiday in. No this the actual area where
we're staying at the Auto Motel it's a it's a decent place but it's right there
on Crack Alley so we got a lot of drugs coming in and out that me and my friend
we stay away from but it's hard to some nights you'll have crackheads up running
around in the parking lot starting arguments and then drama starting up
because of stolen drugs or someone bailing or whatever so what's your
future like? My future I have a plan to get off of I plan to get out of the
motel and me and my friend we're gonna try to get an apartment where hopefully
we'll be far away from this environment and everything. I actually plan on
starting school here as soon as possible and try for fall semester but at the
great things are going right now it might not be until spring or fall next
year. I'm going into psychology. Awesome if you had three wishes what would they
be? Right now my wishes would be I wish my mom the best because she's she left
for Colorado today and that in that wish also that she would find the light
and get off of her addiction to alcohol. My second wish would be that I hope
things go well with our plans to get off of the streets and away from Crack
Alley and everything and wish three. Wish three is I hope everything goes well for
my friends too because I got a lot of friends that are trying to do the same
that we're all pretty much using each other as crutches to help everybody get
out and there's like three four of us trying to get off the streets so we're
all trying to work together to get off. Thank you very much for talking to me.
