Homeless children

[profette_IHB]

Over-priced homes are vacant, and children across the U.S. are <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090310/ap_on_re_us/homeless_children_texas">homeless.</a>



<img src="http://d.yimg.com/img.news.yahoo.com/util/anysize/345,http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090309/capt.72aa4d2b59064fab82f7288eb40850f0.homeless_children_gfx809.jpg?v=2" alt="" />

 

[Anonymous_IHB]

News video of tent city in Sacramento & elsewhere (no kids though - maybe families with kids get priority for the emergency shelters?)

<A href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/29603738#29603738">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/29603738#29603738</A>

 

[profette_IHB]

<strong>As Jobs Vanish, Motel Rooms Become Home </strong>



COSTA MESA, Calif. ? Greg Hayworth, 44, graduated from Syracuse University and made a good living in his home state, California, from real estate and mortgage finance. Then that business crashed, and early last year the bank foreclosed on the house his family was renting, forcing their eviction.



Now the Hayworths and their three children represent a new face of homelessness in Orange County: formerly middle income, living week to week in a cramped motel room.



<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/us/11motel.html?_r=1&em;">Link</a>



<img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/03/10/us/11motels-1-190.jpg" alt="" />

 

[freedomCM_IHB]

Just points out how unaffordable housing still is here, despite the recent reductions. The two earner low wage families, with the median or so income of $50k, should be able to afford to buy housing. maybe a condo, maybe a small SFR in anaheim. another year or so, and the median prices for those kind of lower-third of housing units will drop back to $150k for them.



unless you believe jimmy....