The Guardian – She’s 14 and she’s moved 26 times. The US housing crisis has families like hers ‘running in place’

Boston  – “It’s almost impossible to find your way out of poverty these days,” shared Kate Barrand, President and CEO of Horizons for Homeless Children, in reference to the national housing crisis that’s uprooting families and driving instability for children nationwide. “The system is built to hold them down because embedded in our support system is this belief that if people are poor, it’s their fault. You see these families, these single mothers who work harder than most everyone I know, and they’re literally running in place.” Barrand’s remarks were highlighted in a recent Guardian profile on housing insecurity affecting families.

The piece focuses on how rising rents and stagnant wages are forcing families like the Godfreys (a working single-parent household with children) into a cycle of repeated moves and unstable living arrangements, often rendering them invisible in official homelessness statistics. 

Read the full article in The Guardian.