The New Face of Homelessness

Due to the fact that the increased amount of people becoming homeless no longer fit what used to be the "typical" homeless person, we feel that a certain creativity needs to be provided in order to assist this unusual classification of people.  What I mean is that now, many of the homeless are working class people or they have been professionals within a certain industry, but with the recession that has affected the entire United States, these people are finding themselves homeless.  So we want to provide a clean and safe environment that they were once used to and give them a chance to get back out there in the workforce while not worrying daily about whether they will be in safe shelter.   Our mission is to restore homeless people with their dignity, self-respect, and self-worth. We do this by providing them with housing and employment. We use a housing first model. There’s an old proverb that says: “Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he can eat for a lifetime” We at the Stones That the Builders Rejected Street Project embrace this philosophy wholeheartedly. Instead of a hand out, we give them a hand up!  Thus providing people with the tools necessary to sustain housing and employment. We are supported by private, corporate, government and individual donations.