“Home is where the heart is” and “there’s no place like home,” are clever sayings that people state all of the time.  But the question is what is home? Home to me is a place where you’re comfortable.  Home is the place you go to after a long day of work and/or school and you instantly feel relaxed upon entering. Home is the place where you stay by yourself or with your family and you couldn’t picture yourself living anywhere else but there. 

In the article they basically say that homeless people have a better understanding of home than a person who owns a house.  I don’t totally agree with the statement at all but that’s what the article said.  I don”t believe that a homeless person goes to a shelter or their box that they live in an say, “Home sweet home.”  I don’t think that any homeless person would pick a box or shelter over a house but i do understand that after a while of living somewhere people get accustomed to their surroundings.  People with houses are in a sense homeless too, that’s the point that the article was making. If you live in a house but you don’t like it or the neighborhood then you don’t have a home. If you dread going to your house everyday then you don’t have a home.  If you just hate being there it’s not a home.  A home is a place that’s filled with love and a house is just simply somewhere you have to live at so you won’t become homeless.

As of right now i live in a house, not really a home because building a home takes time and we move so much that once things start to feel homey we move so that i have to become comfortable in a new house.  Getting that homey feeling takes time and work so I haven’t quite reached that with our new house.  In my mind i picture home to be a place where you raise a perfect american family, mom, dad, 2.5 kids and the family dog. In conclusion homes are better than houses.

Ashton Wilson

I read the article Houselessness and Homelessness by Jim Burklo who is a pastor and director of an Urban Ministry of Palo Alto. He describes homelessness in a different kind of way then usual. I thought of homelessness as of people living on the street with no where to go but the streets. I have never heard of houselessness before but I would say it would be the same thing as homelessness. Houslessness is another word he uses to describe people without a house. He chooses his wording very carefully throughout the article. His interpretations of the two are quite interesting and he gives examples that help you relate to what he is saying.
He says that homelessness is those that move from place to place and are never in one area. They range from the richest people in the world to the middle class of the world. Now you think that that’s impossible but is it. The explanation is this people that have homes but are never there are truly homeless they move from hotel to hotel and all around the place but never truly stay in one spot. An example would be celebrities how many have a house in Hollywood and an apartment in New York. They don’t state whether they live in one place or the other because they have both places to stay and go whenever they wish.
Houselessness according to the pastor is considered those that do not have houses but stay in one place at a time. Think about people you see on the streets and at night usually they stay in the same spot every night no matter what. That is because that to them is there home and where they belong. It may not be a house but instead a park bench or under an over pass but to them its home. To a person living on the street they consider themselves to be a resident of that community because it is where they stay and there home. After reading this article I really changed my outlook on this homelessness and houselessness concept it’s very interesting and when you think about it very true.

–N. Corker