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Lack of low income housing creates new homeless couch people
In Brooklyn, Jackie and her son join growing numbers of doubled up families moved by eviction and charity. Advocates estimate up to 3.1 million families nationwide are couch people, many children, living on couches or floors while avoiding shelters. The article follows Jackie through evictions, welfare limits, and attempts to stay in community housing as the city experiments aid to ease crowds in shelters.
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