Since the early 1980s, when government subsidies for low-income housing began to undergo drastic and continuing cuts, homeless families have become a constant fact of life in communities all across America. The dramatic rise in the cost of housing that has occurred since the mid-1990s continues to put safe housing even further out of the reach of those on the lower rungs of our nation’s economic ladder. You can learn more about this problem and how you can help our state and our nation find ways to address this social woe on these pages:
“…the poor are our brothers and sisters…[they are the] people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.”
– Mother Teresa
