In the United States there is a huge issue with homelessness. These are people who have ended up living on the streets for a multitude of reasons. These people are mostly forgotten about, ignored, or even wished gone by a lot of people. These are the people living on The Outside Of Society.
Tim Jorgensen
Tim Jorgensen has been on the streets of Greeley, CO since 2015. Jorgensen has spent 1 year in prison and says the hardest part of living on the streets is the cold and the way people ignore him and give him dirty looks. Jorgensen originally ended up on the streets because of substance abuse issues and stated, “its nobody’s fault but my own and I’m perfectly happy where I am.”
Tim’s friend in the photos in the gallery is Debbie.
Ray
Ray is originally from Texas and ended up in Greeley, CO since 1968. Ray has been on and off the streets since then and his son was murdered in 2014 over drugs.
Bobo
Bobo has been homeless in Greeley, CO for six years but has recently found new housing. He has suffered from substance abuse.
Ronald Taverna
Ronald Taverna was jumped in Central Park un 2004. He had the left side of his skull cracked open and most of the bones in his body were broken. He was in a coma for 6 months, a full body cast for 3 months and then spent another 6 months in rehab learning how to walk, talk, and eat agin. He has traveled to all lower 48 states and has been on the same corner in Greeley, CO since 2015 where he has made enough money to spend small amounts of time here and there in the local motel.
Julie Harmon
Julie Harmon suffered a stroke in 2017 and went to the hospital in Denver where she died and had to be resuscitated twice before returning to greeley, CO.