At Linc Housing’s Liberty Village, homes are hard-won sanctuaries—safe and stable places. Maybe the first safe and stable place in a while.
Supportive housing for veterans is often a quiet place after a season of chaos. It is sometimes a studio apartment where sunlight filters through curtains, where pink-filigreed furnishings welcome tired bodies after a long workday, or where there is space to host a small dinner with friends. Housing can mean an enduring welcome, a sense of belonging.
As a photographer, I feel the welcome, too. I’m invited into home after home by people who have survived things most of us can’t imagine. They introduce me to their book collections; they let me scratch behind the ears of their beloved pets.
A photograph of home is not the happy ending of a story. It’s a fraction of a moment. But it makes evident the value of uplift to people who have risked so much and have much to look forward to.
