She took out a payday loan to keep the water and lights on, hoping to catch up on things when the tax refund came in. But when restaurants closed, a lot of his jobs went away.
Vaughn, 46, said her work as a medical receptionist and her partner’s as a contract cleaner always provided enough for them to make their rent payments. Vaughn’s story is a study in how life can quickly be upended for an essential worker with a narrow margin of error for financial mistakes. “There’s a lot of stuff out there, but I feel like I’m going in circles.” But still, the experience has been overwhelming, Vaughn said. KC Tenants has been helping Vaughn sort out the sometimes confusing array of assistance programs that often differ from county to county. KC Tenants, a tenants rights organization, has shifted its focus from policy issues like a renters’ bill of rights to helping people navigate the eviction process. Hope Faith took over a city block on Virginia Street to offer Covid testing, counseling and other services in tents. In Lawrence, a “city” of 20 tents has been set up in a park. The situation has become worrisome enough that organizations are trying new ideas and in some cases teaming up to address a long-running need. “I would expect even in Douglas County hundreds of households facing eviction. Without more coming, “the entire country is going to be facing a major, major problem,” Faulk said. Mathew Faulk, program manager of the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center in Lawrence, agrees.Ībout $850,000 in federal money was set aside to help people in Lawrence with housing issues, but that’s all been used up. Hope Faith provides services for, but does not house, people experiencing homelessness. Since then, he said, his group has seen about 6,000 new people seeking help. “We saw a 26 percent increase pretty much instantly because of all those people affected by job shortages and furloughs,” said Jaysen Van Sickle, CEO of the Hope Faith Homeless Assistance Campus in Kansas City, referring to the period in March. When those relief packages end, many Kansas City non-profits expect to see another jump in the numbers of people who need help staying in their homes. 27 provides enhanced unemployment benefits until March 14 and extends a moratorium on evictions through Jan. The $900 billion congressional stimulus bill that President Trump finally signed into law on Dec. With winter here and coronavirus infections surging, the organizations that try to help homeless people are nervously eyeing the jump in homelessness last March to get an idea of what may be in the offing. Now Vaughn is an example of what keeps community service organizers up at night – a spike in first-time homelessness brought about by unemployment. She dipped into the little money the family had left to store their possessions. The jobs dried up, the tax refund was less than expected and in July, Vaughn, her partner and three college-age children found themselves evicted. Then the coronavirus pandemic came along and blew it all up. The couple needed to replace the car, but a tax refund was supposed to take care of that. Most of the time she had two jobs – “I’m not afraid of hard work,” she says – and her partner got contract work cleaning for businesses. The PIT Count takes an unduplicated census of people experiencing homelessness – sheltered or not – on a given night in January and helps communities better understand the magnitude and characteristics of its homeless population.It may not have been perfect, but Leslie Vaughn’s delicate financial balance had always worked for her until this year. This report provides information on youth in transition in Columbia maps available resources for housing, education, and employment support for this population and highlights effective programs employed in other communities to serve these vulnerable youth. Therefore, the purpose of this report is to provide a better understanding of the experience and contributing factors of youth who become homeless in the midlands of South Carolina. There is little research or data that examines the age range of 17-24 and their experiences with various systems prior to becoming homeless.
Understanding the causes of homelessness is important to help mitigate those predictors prior to someone becoming homeless. Youth in Transition System Experience Prior to Homelessness
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