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The city's network of homeless shelters has started to overflow, with space especially tight for women and families, who have been turned away by the hundreds and are sleeping on friends' couches, on sidewalks, in cars and in parks, officials and advocates said yesterday.
Advocates said it is troubling to see shelters filled to capacity in midsummer, which raises concern about how the homeless and the District will cope when the weather turns cold. The District's rising unemployment rate, nearing 11 percent, also might worsen the situation
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