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No homes. No jobs. Not even beds at shelters. Here's how families are fighting to stay together.(COVER)
LAST FALL, YOLANDA JAMES and her three children were lost in their own city. After foreclosure had forced them from their South Los Angeles apartment, they ran into closed doors at every turn. Aid agencies offered referrals to other offices, but no relief, and neither the shelter system nor the city's high-priced housing market had room for them. James burned through her welfare money to pay for motel rooms and later resorted to sleeping with her children in their car.
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