NewsNetNebraska reporter Daniel Leifeld spent 24 hours on the street living with a homeless person. He wanted to find out what life is like for the city's less fortunate. 

Click hereto see his video about the homeless life.

A snapshot of Lincoln's homeless

This October 2006 survey provided an unduplicated count of those individuals and families who received homeless services in Lincoln

• 56.4 percent were female
• 28 percent were members of single-parent families, with at least one child under the age of 18.
• 34 percent were victims of domestic violence.
• 38 percent were homeless for the first time.
• 30 percent had been homeless less than three months.
• 68 percent were Caucasian
• 17.4 percent were African-American
• 6 percent were Hispanic
• 5 percent were Native American