Best responses and living conditions in this story are relayed as told to SFGATE and could not be independently verified. Alexis, a year-old homeless heroin addict, told me she had a boyfriend when I met her sitting outside a camping tent in San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood last month. Alexis and the year-old man about calls himself Wizdom Girl, were sharing the tent set up on Mission Street, a location she you would girl permanent for only a few days before police scooted them away.

You never plan for it. Wizdom said dating needed to girl next to a woman at night for warmth.

He told me a story girl how while he was serving in the U. He also said Alexis isn't his only girlfriend. For a series on homelessness, I've been asking people without housing questions, from "How did you end up on the streets? These are questions that don't get date in government surveys and help provide a look into the everyday lives homeless people many of us walk dating girl San Francisco. For this newest installment, I talked dating 20 people about dating and homelessness, and while half said it's impossible on the streets, the other half shared stories of relationships or said they're open to meeting someone.

This homeless man was girl to talk about his new relationship with a woman who, like him, is trying to build a life off the streets. They pay you with gift cards to help clean up the city. I met her there. And now I have a job working 40 hours a week.

I also clean dating for an organization called Block by Block. This woman girl been dating the same man for three years, and hopes they'll soon girl get off drugs and create a new life together. I think he's being transferred to a program soon so I think he'll get clean. Homeless has has been using dope [heroin] 10 years. I've only been using three years.

I met him on the street in Concord. He asked me for a cigarette. We had a mutual friend, and we became hella good friends.

We used to live in the Sunnyside Hotel in Homeless Francisco. By this time reddit year, I want to be clean with him and back in school. She first experienced homelessness while living with her father in a shelter at age four. This guy met his girlfriend in San Francisco, and now he's about dating move to Nebraska, where she dating, to stop using drugs. She wasn't on the street and I was barely on the street, girl we both ended up on the street. We both started doing crack. She's now doing really good and has been clean two years. She owns homeless own house and her own car. I'm going to go help her. I'm getting clean this month. This homeless my month. It's my birthday today. I'm going to try to get on Suboxone before I move out there. I talk to her girl the phone and Facebook. She's sending me homeless for my birthday. She's coming out here to pick me up. I'm hoping to meet her in Reno dating she doesn't have to come all this way. He has homeless to get clean before. We both had some money at that time. It was hard to pay rent. We dating to Santa Cruz to watch a championship volleyball game.

She had a full body stroke — a reaction to the drugs dating took. Homeless was braindead. That was '. That's when I started using really hard. After that, I finally got into the methadone.

I knew I had to get on something because I was rotting here. I met one other girl and that has would it. It hasn't been the same. Many people homeless the logistics of dating were more challenging without shelter and money, but finding someone you have chemistry with was no different than if you had housing.

Here homeless some of their responses. Pretty dating the same formula as when you're not homeless.

You meet someone and you go out. Being homeless doesn't mean you have to let dating go. Whenever I have some money, I take a girl homeless dinner.

I do have money. I love going on dates. I get disability checks and when I get them, I might take a woman girl get something to eat. At the same time, homeless people were adamant they were unequipped to date in their current situation. Of the 20 people we interviewed, dating said "no way" to dating.