The Number Of Homeless Families Is On The Rise
With the economic crisis, we’ve been hearing a lot about people losing their homes, but the story usually ends there. Here at Causecast we wanted to dig a little deeper and see what’s happening to these people after they lose their jobs.
“We saw family homelessness began to increase last winter,” says Sally Erickson, Portland’s homeless program manager. “There’s definitely a spike in the last six months.” In New York City, 2,747 families applied for shelter in September 2008, up from 2,087 in September 2007.
It’s actually very surprising that you hardly ever hear about homeless families, you usually just hear about “people losing their homes.”
Do you think things are going to get better for these people any time soon?
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