Photo: Brent Ward / The ChronicleVideo: Poor in the Promised Land
Scope the SF Chronicle article:
Monday, April 6, 2009 / By Kevin Fagan / SF Chronicle Staff Writer
Excerpts:
Excerpts:
-"Homelessness across the entire nation is soaring, and experts say most of that growth is among people like Conroy - middle- to lower-middle-income workers - or families. But here's the tricky thing: They aren't all showing up in shelters yet."
-"There's a long ladder of resources they first have to tumble down before they hit bottom like Conroy. Right now, experts say, the newly homeless are mostly invisible - living with relatives and tapping friends and unemployment checks to avoid the shelters."
-"It's 'Junior League' homelessness," said Philip Mangano, who, as head of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, is President Obama's point man on the subject. "You can't have the number of foreclosures we've had, and the number of job losses we've had, and not have the homeless numbers go up. Everywhere I go, I hear of more need - and it's growing."
-"There's a long ladder of resources they first have to tumble down before they hit bottom like Conroy. Right now, experts say, the newly homeless are mostly invisible - living with relatives and tapping friends and unemployment checks to avoid the shelters."
-"It's 'Junior League' homelessness," said Philip Mangano, who, as head of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, is President Obama's point man on the subject. "You can't have the number of foreclosures we've had, and the number of job losses we've had, and not have the homeless numbers go up. Everywhere I go, I hear of more need - and it's growing."
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