Please help Carl and Lippy

Hi, my name is Persephanie and I am raising funds for my friend Carl and his gorgeous pitbull Lippy who are both experiencing homelessness.

Carl is 57 years old and on disability. His friend passed away last year and that’s when Carl took on Lippy. A few months ago Carl was Reno-evicted from his house and has been struggling to find housing ever since.

He has no time to sit down to fill out paperwork for housing when he’s being harassed by police and security to move his tent everyday. He has trouble walking and needs a cane, and it takes him hours to pack up his tent and belongings and to move somewhere else to repeat the process over again. Not to mention sleeping on the cold, wet ground.

With the help of a friend we met through Carl we have been able to help him with laundry and taking him to appointments to apply for housing. We also got him a hotel for 4 nights as he was very cold and all of his stuff got soaked in the relentless Vancouver rain.

I’m trying to raise money for Carl so that we can get him off the streets and into somewhere he can call home.

I’ve been working with him closely the last week to get him off the streets but it isn’t easy. The offices he needs to go to don’t allow dogs, and Lippy doesn’t like to be away from him. He has spent hours filing out paperwork for housing and he still isn’t done. Even when he is done, it will be months before he is approved.

He is a great guy, he has amazing stories and loves a good conversation. He doesn’t have problems with addiction, he’s just a guy who is down on his luck and living life in survival mode.

Even if we could buy him a nice little trailer to live in until he is approved for housing would be amazing!

Thank you for taking the time to read Carl’s story.