Mobile homes: The 'hidden homeless'

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – For four years, the only life Paula Corb and her two daughters have known is the one inside their 2000 Mazda minivan – stopping once in a while for take-out, groceries and gas.

Corb and the girls Alice and Emily are among 214,000 "unsheltered" homeless people in America, meaning they sleep in places not intended for human beings to sleep, like bus stations, abandoned buildings, parks or cars. For them, making a pit stop for gas is the equivalent of paying rent.

"We go on about a four-block radius," Corb explained. "It’s $5 to $10 a day. You see, that’s $70 a week times four. I mean, that’s more than we really have got.”

The vast majority of the country's 71,000 homeless families live in shelters, but almost 10,000 are living life like the Corbs ...

Much more here (what life has become for individuals living in vehicles and how they are forming a community):http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/articles/2014/10/10/mobile-homes-manyhiddenhomelessamericanslivinginvehicles.html

[ctsnowman]

1. These people should

just start their own business.

Just in case

[TBF]

8. Mitt's cars - with their private elevators and all -

live better than many humans in this country.

[YoungDemCA]

9. First they should get a job

Or two, or three, or more.

Maybe their job could be making bootstraps for themselves. It's the American Way!

[jwirr]

2. I think that in the Great Depression they were called Jalopy Travelers.

[packman]

3. Yah, that was Mitt's advice

Just borrow 20K or so from Mom and Dad --

[Dont call me Shirley]

4. The rich are just plain WRONG.

We are all born onto this earth, we all deserve to share in the resources of this earth:

1-3 Clean air, water, food
4-5 Safe shelter and clothing
6 Sane treatment when sick or injured
7 A community of inclusion
8 A sense of whole self

[TBF]

5. I'm with you.

Would add opportunity for education/training.

There's no good reason for a group of billionaires to hold everyone else in poverty ... as they jet to and from their multiple mansions.

There are plenty of resources on this globe if they are distributed with common sense to aid all as opposed to distributing as profit for a few.

[L0oniX]

6. Those figures are way off.

[TBF]

7. Yes I suspect they are quite low compared

to what is really going on. Just looking at home many kids have subsidized/free student lunches in this country gives you an idea at how large and widespread the problem of poverty is.