In the city of Tacoma in my home State of Washington. homeless individuals are surviving on food salvaged from supermarket dumpsters and are sleeping the night in appliance cartons and makeshift huts made of cardboard boxes. Homeless families. many headed by single women. are joining the mentally ill. the unemployed. and older men with alcohol problems at the doors of missions and emergency shelters. A family of 10 Indochinese refugees was found living in a car In the parking lot of a Tacoma hospital. Although we are enjoying a nationwide economic recovery of unprecedented strength. it has yet to reach these people. The cities in the State of Washington are striving to meet the need through increased shelter services and proposals to rehabilitate hotels as halfway houses for the mentally ill.
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