No Room At The Inn, But Some Are Strong Enough To Keep Fighting for Survival, Anyway

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Despite the extreme adversity of living without a home, research has found that over 98% of unhoused individuals can identify specific personal strengths—such as persistence, social intelligence, and kindness—that they utilize daily to survive.*

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* Tweed et al. "Self-perceived strengths among people who are homeless." In The Journal of Positive Psychology (2012). This research utilized the VIA (Values in Action) Taxonomy of Character Strengths. Researchers found that 98.3% of the participants (114 out of 116) were able to identify significant personal strengths despite their circumstances.

According to the study, the most frequently identified strengths used by the unhoused to survive were:

Persistence: The sheer grit to keep going after a day of rejection or hardship.

Social Intelligence: The ability to navigate complex social environments and "street" dynamics.

Kindness & Altruism: Surprisingly, many unhoused individuals reported that helping others was a primary source of their own strength.

Authenticity: Maintaining a true sense of self when the world tries to reduce them to a statistic.