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• Imagine being placed in a shelter in the suburbs, far from familiar neighborhoods and
familiar people
– isolated – with limited access to transportation…
• Imagine living in one room with your children – and sharing a bathroom with another family
or other families – in a building with 15 or 30 or more other families – and sharing
a common room –
and having to agree on what television program so many families should watch…• Imagine having to spend your time filling out countless housing applications, day in and day out, week in
and week out,
when the wait for such housing can take a year or longer – and will likely
mean moving far away…• Imagine being a parent and being supervised and scrutinized by
shelter staff and other parents…• Imagine the stress• Imagine how badly you would feel that your children had to live this way
• Imagine
feeling like you had no other choices
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