John Gillis wakes up every morning at 5 a.m., showers, gets dressed and then shares breakfast with maybe 100 other men. He steps out of the old school building where he lives and heads for a local coffee shop for some caffeine. “That’s the real alarm clock,” Gillis said. Then he’ll head to the library and get to work. That means writing.
The Powerful And The Powerless: Homelessness In The Nation’s Capital
More than 7,000 homeless live in Washington, from the woman living in a cardboard and duct tape structure near the White House to the panhandlers working K Street.
