In this op-ed, DeForrest (DeDe) Hancock, a UCSF Benioff Homeless Housing Initiative Lived Expertise Advisory Board member, tells her story about experiencing homelessness. She writes, [when] “I was homeless, 2009 to 2016, I came to believe that we are all ordinary people simply each living out the scripts of our lives. Some of our scripts include life-challenges which provide lived experience to build the expertise and skills for survival.”
