What 6 survivors of homelessness want you to k**w
 

What 6 survivors of homelessness want you to k**w
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The home is sacred — a practical and spiritual shelter that sustains life.*


Yet, every year more than 3 million Americans, many of them children, lose that sanctuary and become homeless, according to the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty. They turn car seats into makeshift beds, find temporary respite at crowded shelters, sleep on concrete under garbage-bag tents.*

These scenes are so familiar that homelessness in America can seem incurable. In San Francisco, where estimates indicate at least 6,600 people are homeless, finding an affordable and permanent place to call home in the city's exorbitant housing market is increasingly akin to winning the lottery. Those grueling odds exact a physical and emotional toll on the people who endure them.* Read more...

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