Homelessness Is as Real as a Theatrical Performance

by Charles MudedemonstArrr_/gettyimages.com
The tragedy of homelessness is that, in essence, it has as much reality as a play in a theater. The men and women who sleeping in tents or on the sidewalk are as fictional as the characters Othello, or Romeo and Juliet, or the Woman in the Balcony and Man in the Auditorium. The fiction in a theater, however, is produced by the human imagination. The fiction of homelessness is produced not by actual scarcity, but an imposed one. This is why a philanthro