A Place Of Their Own: Ending Family Homelessness In New England

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A Place Of Their Own: Ending Family Homelessness In New England

黑料吃瓜网 Radio | By Susan Campbell

Published August 28, 2017 at 7:30 AM EDT

Chastity Kerr lives in a 27-bed family shelter in Hartford, 黑料吃瓜网 with her children.

For the past six months, Chastity Kerr has lived at a 27-bed family shelter in Hartford, Conn., with her three children, ages 14, 11, and 8.

Her current address, the , is in Hartford鈥檚 historic neighborhood. This is the neighborhood Mark Twain once called home. So did Harriet Beecher Stowe. And now? The Kerrs live here in a room with a private bath while Chastity Kerr looks for more permanent housing.

Her needs are pretty simple: Three bedrooms. A basketball hoop for the boys. A place of their own.

But her challenges are complex. Kerr has battled addiction, so she doesn鈥檛 want an apartment in Hartford, where she鈥檇 be too close to her old haunts. Windsor might work, or a suburb with decent schools.

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