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Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty

Homelessness

Survey finds rise in homeless population, By Angelo Fichera, June 10, 2014, Philadelphia Inquirer: “Not much has changed since Jan. 28 for Sarah Anderson. It was a cold winter, she said, and the bedside fire in a dilapidated shack in the woods in Pemberton Township where she had lived for months offered little respite. While she recently began staying in a friend’s pop-up camper, the 55-year-old still holds out hope for affordable housing. ‘What I really want is to have my own place,’ Anderson said Monday, ‘try to be normal like I used to be.’ Anderson, a former’s nurse’s aide who was evicted from her residence last May and who is now dealing with colon cancer . . .”