Foreclosure Numbers Are Increasing Leading to More Homelessness
May 21st, 2009
Foreclosure numbers are rapidly increasing and this is leading to more people facing homelessness. Each individual has a sad tale to tell.
Derrick Hughes tried hard to save his house in Roxbury but foreclosure had the last say. The deputies of the sheriff evicted Hughes in January this year. He had no choice but to take shelter except inside his Chevrolet. He spent driving around and thinking about the immediate future. He lived in the car for two months.
There are an increasing number of others like Hughes who are being rendered homeless by the foreclosure waves. The state (Massachusetts) is keeping 2,650 families in shelters as well as motels. In comparison to last year the increase has been by 34%. 8% put the blame on foreclosures. Last year 3% had held foreclosures responsible for their predicament. This is from a survey conducted by the Department of Transitional Assistance.
John Yazwinski of Father Bills and Mainspring of Brockton and Quincy (non-profit body)said, “People, families, and individuals have come back to their apartments and have been shown the door. There are more and more families from the rental market and people who have never experienced homelessness before.”
In 2008 there were 12,430 foreclosures in Massachusetts – an increase of 62% from 2007 as per the findings of the Warren Group. 3,300 foreclosures related to houses having two to three units. This resulted in the eviction of tenants for no fault of theirs. Many of these renters could not afford giving security deposit and two months advance rent once again. So they moved in with family and friends but soon when this did not work out in the long run they became officially homeless.
Those who are newly homeless cannot be easily identified as they are shy to talk about their condition even with friends and peers. One Brockton couple said that none of their acquaintances know that they have been homeless since last summer. They returned home one day with their four children from a summer vacation to find that their landlord had been foreclosed upon. There was a notice pasted on the front porch that they would have to vacate the premises within a week. The irony was that they had been regular in their rental payments and had no idea about the plight of their landlord. They had nowhere to go. Their whole world collapsed around them. The only alternative seemed to be streets.
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