In Part II of our miniseries, The Way Home, we talk with Eusebio Jude Sandoval, who goes by Jude, and his caseworker, Nick Blanc.
Jude is one of more than 1,800 formerly unhoused people who have received housing through All Roads Permanent Supportive Housing and Boulder’s Housing First Initiative which began in 2017.
On paper, Jude may not seem like someone who could find themselves without housing. He was born in Kansas City and is the son of two research scientists. He’s published his own novel and worked in television. Jude speaks four languages, in part because his parents traveled all across the world researching at different institutes during Jude’s childhood. For college, Jude attended CU Boulder, where he graduated with a bachelor’s in Fine Arts. In 1992, Jude graduated from Naropa with his master’s in Fine Arts.
For the next 20 years, for the most part, from the outside, Jude’s life seemed like it was going okay.
Then, in 2012, Jude’s mother passed away. Jude says his father became depressed, and so, at the request of his siblings, Jude moved from Boulder to Fort Lupton to take care of his father. By 2014, things between Jude and his father had soured. Jude’s father kicked him out. By 2018, Jude found himself homeless.
Jude says that although he had before experienced being somewhat nomadic, realizing he had nowhere to call home and, what felt like, no options to change that, was completely different.
Listen to the story here:
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Episode 2: Jude gets back in housing Alexis Kenyon
Jude has spent the last several years writing a novel which he recently self-published, entitled Blu. You can buy a copy of Jude’s book here. He uses the pen name Usul Nima.
Book Summary: Alexander Ely-Jones is the first human to survive a space crash. He discovers intelligent life on Rhea, the ice moon of Saturn; is introduced to clairvoyance and time travel; eventually rescued and returns home the most wealthy and famous man on Earth. Alexander reveals that a meteor seventeen times the mass of our planet will completely destroy Earth in five years; selects a few to save via public events combining EDM and spirituality — some go back to various times in the past, and others to the future. This is their story, and how they fared.
The Way Home is a miniseries about homelessness in Boulder in collaboration with Boulder’s All Roads (formerly Boulder’s Shelter for the Homeless) and KGNU. Special thanks to Andy Schultheiss for his help with this episode.
