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Foreclosed Ex-Homeowners Turn to Shelters
Peter S. Goodman
The New York Times
Monday, Oct 19th, 2009
The first night after she surrendered her house
to foreclosure, Sheri West endured the darkness in her Hyundai
sedan. She parked in her old driveway, with her flower-print
dresses and hats piled in boxes on the back seat, and three
cherished houseplants on the floor. She used her backyard as
a restroom.
The second night, she stayed with a friend, and
so it continued for more than a year: Ms. West — mother
of three grown children, grandmother to six and great-grandmother
to one — passed months on the couches of friends and relatives,
and in the front seat of her car.
But this fall, she exhausted all options. She had once owned
and overseen a group home for homeless people. Now, she succumbed
to that status herself, checking in to a shelter.
“No one could have told me that in a million years: I’d
wake up in a homeless shelter,” she said. “I had
a house for homeless people. Now, I’m homeless.”
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