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Monday, July 13, 2009

Homeless Families Increasing, U.S. Finds

WASHINGTON — Several years of progress in reducing the number of chronically homeless people ended last year, a study released Thursday by the Department of chronically homeless people ended last year, a study released Thursday by the Department of Housing and Urban Development shows.

While the numbers of individual homeless people remained relatively flat, the number of people in families that were homeless rose by 9 percent from Oct. 1, 2007, to Sept. 30, 2008, the report found.

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