Homeless child stares at me was I wait for Drew Benton out side of Safehouse Outreach. Drew Informed me that the child is having a lot of discipline problems and he is constantly in and out of the homeless shelter.

A homeless woman sits on the side of the street in front of the abandoned apartment building that many homeless people visit.

Shelia glances at me as she is telling her story to the Safehouse Outreach volunteers.

A homeless man sleeps in a tent on the 3rd floor of an abandoned building in Atlanta.

Shelia holds her nose to avoid the stench as she leads us on a tour of the abandoned building she calls home.

A lone chair sits in Shelia's room in front of a table full of both prescription and non-prescription medication.

A homeless man, Marlon, sits on his makeshift bed as he explains to the Safehouse Volunteers about his living situation and boasts about not having any responsibilities. He has lived there for 8 months.

Marlon, the homeless man living in the abandoned building, explains how he uses a laundry hamper to keep his food away from the rats.

A homeless woman sleeps on a four chairs outside in the early morning outside Safehouse Outreach.

Another woman sleeps outside of Safehouse Outreach as she waits to get in and talk about employment and benefits.

A homeless woman holds her child as she waits to enter the food line outside of Safehouse Outreach.

Two Safehouse volunteers hold hands with two homeless men in a prayer for the two homeless men to get back on their feet. The two young ladies were from a church group.

Joseph, a homeless man and a regular to Safehouse Outreach, teaches the Safehouse volunteers a few rifts

A homeless man sleeps on in a cot in the Peachtree and Pine St. Homeless Shelter. The shelter has become a controversy for not being adequte in providing people a means to help themselves and has run into financial straits. The city threatened to cut off their water if they didn't receive the over hundred thousand dollars owed by the shelter.

Drew Benton walks past two crack users that quickly concealed their drugs and paraphernalia as we walked past.

Sasquatch, as he preferred to be called and a regular at Safehouse, looks looks away after he explains how he used to live in those apartments when he had no where to go.

A homeless man clasps his hands in prayer during the prayer service at Safehouse Outreach.

A homeless man brings his hands together in prayer during the prayer service at Safehouse Outreach

Donald "One-eyed" blues man plays the harmonica as Atlanta residents walk past.

Donald plays his harmonica, his hands show the wear of homeless life.

Shelia talks to Drew Benton explains her life story and her drug addiction and the time she had a congenital heart attack in the abandoned building.

Daniel poses for a portrait after he tells his life story and how he ended up living behind the CNN center in Atlanta.

Drew Benton embraces Shelia finding her in the abandoned building in Five Points.