Hasnain says:

This is such a sad read that goes into housing policy, homelessness, and poverty. Also a window into one family’s life.

“Yet it’s HUD’s definition that determines the allocation of crucial housing assistance. “It’s a crazy logic,” Barbara Duffield, the director of SchoolHouse Connection, a national youth-homelessness organization, told me. “It basically goes: We don’t see homeless families, so we don’t have any here, therefore we don’t have to help them.””

Posted on 2019-12-01T01:33:41+0000