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When Will We Catch On?
A Lesson In Homelessness From a Mother Who Knows
Why do we have so many homeless families?
Families? We first need to move from people not even knowing family homelessness is a huge issue. Then the question arises — why are so many families homeless?
…why are so many families homeless?
The issue of family/youth homelessness barely makes a blip on newsfeeds, despite millions of kids and parents being homeless. I search a variety of news media daily for this topic. Current events suck the air out of other worthy topics, including homelessness. Too bad, because if we ever paid attention and addressed family/youth homelessness we’d all be better for it.
In their report on rural student homelessness, the Institute of Children, Poverty, and Homelessness pointed out:
Rural areas often have fewer homeless shelters, meaning that homeless students are more likely to have stayed in overcrowded, doubled-up living arrangements or unsheltered in places not meant for habitation, such as cars.
