The Greenville County School, SC system is experiencing a sharp increase of 500 homeless students in the district. School officials state the dramatic increase is due to the rise in unemployment and foreclosure. For the full article, read here.

Mr. John Van Etten, is the Homeless Management Information Systems coordinator for Sullivan County for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) cited a large increase in the homeless persons. Some of the possible reasons for this increase are foreclosure and economic downturn. Click here to read the full article.

Teri Funk and Rebecca Bower are two advocates working together to end homelessness in Carver and Scott County in Minnesota. According to Rebecca Bower, Community Action Program, the causes of homelessness are due to unemployment or underemployment leading to foreclosure and evictions. For more information, click here.

In Winston-Salem, North Carolina, statistics from an annual homeless count held on January 27th revealed a increase with the number of homeless children from last year. In 2009, the survey counted 485 homeless person with 61 children. This year, the new stastics showed an increase with 547 homeless persons, including 105 children.  Andrea Kurtz, Director of the Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness, cites the debilitating economy that leads to unemployment and other challenges. …

The number of homeless families is steadily rising in Idaho. However, Homeless Advocates state their current situation could have worsened with the continuing recession, unemployment, and foreclosures. Click here for the full story.

A survey conducted in Shasta County, (Redding, CA) reported that of the top reasons for being homeless, foreclosure is ranked at 14%. The top three reasons of homelessness, included job loss, 36 percent; loss of income, 20 percent; roommate issues, 15 percent. (Respondents could choose multiple reasons). For the full story, click here .

In March 2009, Tenants Together ( a California based organization for tenants rights), reported 225,000 renters of the 14 million in the state lived in properties that went through foreclosure in 2008 alone. For the full story, click here.

Homelessness is rising in the suburbs, causing the poor to face uncertain conditions and a huge number thrown out of homes by foreclosure are migrating to the outskirts of cities. To read the full article, click here.

Laura Battles is facing homelessness due to the foreclosure crises. Last year, 20,000 to 25,000 renters were among those affected when more than 60,000 New Jersey properties went into foreclosure. Click here for more details.

Over the past three years, there has been an increase in the number homeless students in South Carolina. Brenda Myers, state Department of Education coordinator for the McKinney-Vento Education Program, states that the signficant economic downturn has led to this devastating increase.

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Lee County is working with a company named Realauction.com to clear backlog of foreclosure cases. However, Lee County Clerk of Court, Charlie Green, is investigating way to use the Web site to do the accounting, saving time for clerks. It has been reported from Green’s office that about 1,400 foreclosures were filed in November 2009, the lowest number since about 1,300 were filed in September 2007. They peaked at about 2,600 in October 2008.* To read the full story, [click here|http://www. …

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There is an estimated 1.7 million homeowners who are facing foreclosure in the fall 2010.  This number has increased from 1.1 million from last year and is likely to keep rising explained, Mark Fleming, chief economist of First American CoreLogic, the research firm that released the study. For more information, click here

In November 2009, reports of foreclosure have increased from the previous year by 14 %, with 57,749 homes in jeopardy, according to the N.C. Administrative Office of the Courts. The state of North Carolina has launched the Home Foreclosure Prevention Project, to provide homeowners with counseling and legal advice from state and nonprofit agencies.


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After coming home from a sunday church service, a Maryland couple found an unexpected sheriff's notice on their front door which stated, "Get out in 10 days, it said, or be evicted."

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The Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009 was passed by both the House and Senate and was signed by President Obama on May 20, 2009. It includes a measure to reauthorize the housing and shelter programs of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act - the first and still only major legislation addressing homelessness, for the first time in 17 years. …