How do families become homeless?
Families with children find themselves homeless in the District of Columbia for a variety of reasons. Rising rent costs, landlords selling property, family crises like job loss, parental incarceration, domestic violence, medical problems, mental health problems, fire, and often a combination of many factors. Often times, there is trauma associated with a familys journey to homelessness. What may start out with a family crisis becomes a knock on the door by the U.S. Marshals and all of their earthly possessions being put out on the street during an eviction. Where does a family go? If your family should face a crisis that results in losing your home, where would you go? Most families move in temporarily with family or friends or maybe stay in a hotel for as long as they can. These families are called the hidden homeless and living under such uncertainty can be a tremendous strain on a familys financial resources and on the social supports of whomever they are living doubled-up with. Eac
