8 Black Celebrities Who Have Opened Up About Being Unhoused

Many look at the lives of celebrities and their immense wealth and immediately assume that there is no way that they can relate to the financial struggles that many Americans face.

However, with just a few minutes of deep diving they would find that some of the wealthiest celebrities in Hollywood once found themselves without shelter and unhoused — proving that you never truly know the struggles someone has been through when you’re on the outside looking in.

Here, we compiled a list of celebrities who have been open about being unhoused.

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1. Tyler Perry

Before he became one of the biggest self-made moguls in Hollywood, Tyler Perry struggled to provide for himself while attempting to make his dreams come true.  “It was too much. It’s too much. The pain was too much. What I’d been through was too much. I’m homeless. I don’t have food to eat,” he said in a 2023 interview.

“So, I would say to anybody, just look for the little things that encourage you, even if you don’t see anything, the little, small things that keep you going,” he added.