Oakland resident Tanara Green recently became homeless and is living out of her truck with her 3-year-old son.The coronavirus pandemic could cause US homelessness to rise 45% by the end of the year, according to one estimate.
An estimated 560,000 Americans are homeless on any given night, and experts predict the pandemic could increase homelessness by 45% by the end of the year,Business Insider Today interviewed people in Oakland and Atlanta who recently became homeless, as well as members and beneficiaries of programs providing them relief."I wasn't always living out of my truck, of course," Green said. "I had a nice, stable job and I was paying money faithfully to the landlord.
Candice Elder, founder of the East Oakland Collective, visits homeless encampments on a regular basis with her team, where they distribute food and also COVID-19 kits, including masks and hand sanitizer."We're having to provide resources for people who are on the street and who are visibly homeless, but also trying to provide resources for the folks that you don't see — the people who are living in their cars, their vans, people who are living in their RVs," Elder said.
"I literally had to go across town in order to collect the amount of water I needed in order for me, my dogs, my daughter, you know, everything. It was ridiculous," Sparks said. Once evicted, families face an uphill battle securing a new place to live, said Emily Benfer, a law professor at Wake Forest University and cocreator of the"It is a trauma that families and individuals are experiencing that takes an extremely long amount of time to recover from," Benfer said. "One of the reasons for this is that once an eviction is filed, that is on the tenant's permanent record. And so future property owners might screen to look for that.
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