Massive Needs Uncovered! Now What?

Diane Nilan
5 min readApr 3, 2020

COVID-19 Reveals Society’s Weakness in Caring for the Most Vulnerable

crying baby
She’s got plenty to cry about. Photo Diane Nilan

For decades, opponents of our Homeless Children and Youth Act maintained that families who lost housing due to crisis and doubled up with others or in motels on their own dime weren’t really homeless. Now all of a sudden, “thanks” to CoVid19, we see how vulnerable these and so many others…

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Diane Nilan

Founder/pres. HEAR US Inc., gives voice & visibility to homeless families & youth, ran shelters, advocate, filmmaker, author, 18 yrs. on US backroads. hearus.us