The Homeless Challenge Project asks individuals from economically privileged backgrounds to give up everyday things (i.e. cell phones, warm bed and shelter) and live on the streets as a person experiencing homelessness.

The experience typically lasts 48 hours.

The Homeless Challenge Project serves as an educational tool providing participants with a better understanding of the scope of homelessness and of how public policies and social service organizations currently deal with the trauma of homelessness.

Taking the Challenge provides participants with experiential and emotional knowledge of some parts of a homeless person's situation, which results in a greater ability to seek solutions.  While a participant certainly cannot experience homelessness entirely when a bed and food awaits back home, the Challenge does offer new insights into the life of person without a home - waiting in soup lines, walking great distances to access services, feeling 'invisible' to those not homeless.

For more information go to: The Homeless Challenge Project  or