Contributed by Stephanie Gauthier.

How do you wind up experiencing homelessness?

The answer is rarely straightforward. For Soren, it all started when he lost his car.

91裸聊视频淢y car got impounded,91裸聊视频� he says. 91裸聊视频淚 lost a brand-new Honda GSR, a little racecar thing that I bought with my dad91裸聊视频檚 inheritance. The only thing I ever got from my father, and I ended up losing it over $900.91裸聊视频�

The payment would91裸聊视频檝e released the car from impound. Soren and his partner worked at an orchard at the time where their housing was provided. The season ended shortly before the car was impounded so they had also just lost their stable housing.

91裸聊视频淥nce the car was gone, so were 90 per cent of our belongings,91裸聊视频� Soren says. 91裸聊视频淲e were basically left with nothing.91裸聊视频�

They didn91裸聊视频檛 have a home or a means of transportation that could help them find new jobs. This led Soren to experience homelessness for the first time in his life. It was two years after he came to Kelowna from Powell River after a friend encouraged him to move.

91裸聊视频淗e led me to believe Kelowna was all that and a bag of chips.91裸聊视频�

Soren now counts the move as a misstep and a contributing factor leading him to homelessness. He didn91裸聊视频檛 have a local support structure that could have changed his direction.

91裸聊视频淵ou get in that rut and if you don91裸聊视频檛 have friends or family who can help you out of it, there91裸聊视频檚 not a whole lot you can do,91裸聊视频� he says.

Soren reveals more factors that led to homelessness. Things predating his arrival in Kelowna, while working in the logging industry.

91裸聊视频淚 got crushed by a log when I was 19,91裸聊视频� he says. 91裸聊视频淚t drove me into the ground like a nail. Broke my back, broke my neck, shattered my pelvis, and broke my spleen. I spent thirteen months in the hospital. I should be dead.91裸聊视频�

Soren recovered and continued working in logging. He even started his own business, making millions of dollars in the process. However, he was living with constant pain and a dependence on prescription opiates, which eventually led him to use heroin. He blames doctors for many of his battles with addiction. A twist in Soren91裸聊视频檚 path came when softwood lumber prices tanked and took his business interests with them.

91裸聊视频淚 lost everything,91裸聊视频� he says. 91裸聊视频淚 lost every asset I had.91裸聊视频�

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