A place for former foster kids to call their own, By Sue Doyle, August 13, 2009, Los Angeles Daily News: “Brandee Berry peers out the window of her new studio apartment, overlooking the high school she attended in foster care, and she grins. After leaving foster care transitional housing two years ago, the 23-year-old struggled to pay the $600 rent on her Lancaster apartment with her hotel front desk job while attending community college full time. On the brink of homelessness, she touched base with Penny Lane Centers, the social service that guided her through foster care, and learned about a newly constructed apartment building that provides permanent housing for former foster youth and low-income families…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty