Posted on October 23, 2015 by Haya El Nasser in Al Jazeera America Al Jazeera America, By Haya El Nasser The national campaign to end chronic homelessness in America’s cities has focused on veterans and the chronically homeless. But there is another class of newly homeless: Evicted tenants, often families with children, who can’t afford a roof over their heads after they lose their lease. Evictions have reached epidemic proportions and created a new homeless crisis born out of an affordable housing shortage.
