His deteriorating health sidelined him from his long-time job as a truck driver. His income bottomed out and then his marriage followed.
The children stayed with their mother. Charles landed on the streets.
By 2013, he was living in a truck parked usually somewhere in Altadena or Pasadena. He learned the streets less traveled by parking enforcement and woke up early to avoid their tickets.
“You never think you’ll be homeless,” Charles said Wednesday, resting on a cane in the courtyard of his first home in three years. “You never think you’ll need to be thrown a life line.”
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