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[|Rising tide of suburban homeless across U.S.]

As the federal government starts counting the nation's homeless population once again, they are starting to notice a trend in increasing amounts of the suburban population amongst those counted. Amongst this population, there are more families, women, men, children, and Latinos looking for assistance for the first time. Many of them have been turned away. There has been a growing amount counted using homeless shelters at 30% or more. The 2009 HUD report show that found that the number of families sheltered grew from approximately 473,000 to 517,000. In Northeast Atlanta, foreclosures have risen to 77 percent from 2008 to 2009 according to Gwinnett County Coalition for Health and Human Services. There is a shocking number of about 60 percent of the county's homeless are children under the ages of 9.

We need to start looking at the homeless in a different way. It's not just men and women now, there are children also being affected by this. Many don't have ways to cover health care and some are already sick and need medical attention. Read the following article for further details: []  Associated Press,. "Rising tide of suburban homeless across U.S.."**//**MSNBC**// **(2010): n. pag. Web. 16 Feb 2010. <[]//>.**
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