Hidden homeless: U.S. families living in motel rooms

That's funny. The gov't keeps track of everything. It's being recorded but they aren't saying anything. It sucks not owning a home. I've been there. But then you gotta pay land taxes. Either way you've been complaining you paying too much on land taxes or you're just getting by staying at a motel. The homeless living on the streets will just died living in motels. So much better than living in your van or on the streets. I remember me and my mother went homeless when we were evicted. Ouch. We stay at a hotel for at least for a year. It's what my mother reported to social services. But our money ran out when it was good and we stay with someone we know. If my kids knew we were homeless. I'll say do better in school. You'll get scholarships to go to college. And get a realistic job or follow your dream the hard way. Why are we living in a motel? The American's Dream! So one of us can retire and buy us a home.

Living in a motel means theres a deeper underlying problem, theres usually some kind of mental illness or addiction issues.
its actually fairly expensive way to exist

I'd be considering a cheaper set of wheels if I was in their situation.

In 2010 I was OTR trucking and seen this. I would stay st Motel 6 few times a week. Family's living there with lots of kids. I felt so bad for them. Obama could of got every family into a home BUT take care of. Illegal immigrants was more important how does these people live with themselves

If I was in that situation I would try to build a log cabin in the woods. Maybe get 4-5 other families and do a Front tier style town

Lived in a motel room for two years with my son while he was in elementary school. It was awful.

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so what?

Shit happens. You did what you had to do. I think back 1,000 years when people lived in much worse situations. Only difference between them and us is technology. WE are being fucked from every direction. You are a Survivor. People who never live thru a major life changing event don't get a chance to grow spiritually I believe.

I can relate to this. Back in 2007 I graduated high school and went to college. A month later my parents split and the bank foreclosed on our house, the house I grew up in. My dad and younger brother were forced to live in a motel while my dad tried to work and save to at least afford a normal apartment, which was hard due to needing not only the deposit and rent as disposable, but to keep affording food for him and my brother (they ate lots of PB&J and meat and cheese sandwiches).

When my brother wasn't finding a place to stay at friends houses, he was skipping school and getting in fights. Before long my brother and dad had a fight (very physical) and my dad kicked him out, and he went to live with my mom.

Eventually my dad saved enough to get out of the weekly motels but still apartments wouldn't approve him due to the foreclosure and poor credit. Only when my grandma agreed to cosign on a lease did he get to move into an apartment.

10 years later and my dad is still in an apartment, but doing okay. My brother also holds a decent steady job and has started a family, but he tells me that year in that motel stays etched in his memory always.

Our childhood home had 2 other families live in it, but today it is an abandoned derelict. I went to visit my old neighborhood a year ago with my mom. The outside of the house is unassuming other than a rotted out garage door and overgrown plant life. The inside has been ripped bear to the concrete slabs and holes where appliances once were. The walls punctured with loose wire hanging out. Garbage and makeshift beds littered throughout the house.

Seeing that scene, the place I grew up, all of my childhood memories made, become a place with nothing left, tore me up knowing I could never truly go back to any of that. Feeling completely disconnected from my childhood made me want to raze the house to the ground and burn the remains as a means to gain closure on that chapter of my life

$450 a week for the shittiest motel in town here.

Odd that he was a realtor and a college degree but was renting for his family.

Best advice... When you have a job don't expect it to last forever. Don't buy fancy cars, vacations etc.
Save some money and invest in a house you CAN afford. You can always move up but it's much harder to move down.

I love stereotyping Mot#$#$@ers such as U.
People claim addicts and criminals live lives of denial.
But denial is also deep rooted in people such as you who fail to see outside the box.
Regardless of your inept vision of how the world really is there is a manifestation of poverty and despair running rampant among many American citizens that are NOT addicts and are NOT mentally deficient.
You sir are are a part of a very big problem.
GM

Illegal aliens and rent subsidies also affect rent prices. More people and more money chasing a relatively fixed amount of housing equals higher housing prices. But there is always housing to be had. I have renters paying $875/month for a 2bdrm rental unit that cost me $55k to buy. They could have bought the place and paid less that $400 on a 30yr mortgage payment but instead are paying twice that in rent and building zero equity. Meanwhile, since they've been renting the property value has increased $5k. But some people just have a renter's mentality or initially buy more home than they can comfortably afford or get into negative equity situations where they cannot sell and walk away clean. Its not enough to simply look at these people in a motel room and draw conclusions. There were decisions made along the way that led to that point that must be considered to accurately assess how they arrived ath that situation.

Wife is a social worker in MA. It's reached epidemic proportions here.

People have been living in those apartments for decades.

They used to be hotels for tourist Thatwould come to Disneyland. But they've gotten old and run down.

Just saw a movie about this same subject called 99 homes. Really good movie free on amazon video for prime users.

That family has four kids. They complain about financial problems, but had their fourth child just two months ago.

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I think something else has been overlooked also. The rise in homeowners who rent out a room to help make ends meet. College kids that share apartments. The list goes on. It is much worse than they are reporting.

The entire time, effort and wealth of a once great nation is totally consumed by feeding, clothing and wiping the butts of the peasant class. There is nothing left over to support truly productive people who have temporarily fallen on hard times. Everything is geared towards supporting the permanent underclass who have no interest in ever contributing anything to society and spend their entire lives as a net drain on the civil society. The US takes in $4 TRILLION / year in taxes and is $20 TRILLION in debt endlessly subsidizing the ever-growing parasite class. Productive citizen or those attempting to be productive are played as sucker and left in the lurch. Classic Maoism. Look it up.

I consider myself pretty lucky. I pay $800/month for a 4 bedroom house. One hour south of me in Burlington, VT? You are looking at 2k at LEAST for a house that size.

It's just not affordable for families in many, many places.

I agree 100%. The fact is that with everything we purchase being taxed, levied or so forth by one agency or another, surely there is money in the coffers to create living space for people in OTHER THAN SECTION 8 HOUSING.

We as a Nation, hell as a world have turned our backs on our own people and embrace and fall over backwards helping people coming here from other countries. Especially people who bring noting to the table other than an appetite. Take, take , take is all these invading hoards of sponges do.

Then they shit in our streets , rape our children and attempt to tell us how to dress, what religion to practice, what immoral things that they do , in their view is the WAY.

STOP THE MADDNESS.

He is full of shit his property taxes alone were more than that

Al kinds of jobs, cheap houses and a life here in Minnesota, They fhould Get in there 380 dollar a month car and drive.

When You gwt here sell the 380 dollar a month car and buy a cheaper 1, I have 2 2006 Saturn Vue's, All options, leather seats great stereo and they both Have a Honda v6 250 hp engine and a honda transmission rhat was stock from 2004-2006

I have had these cars 5 years and paid 3,500 for 1 and 4,300 for the other and have had no problems what so ever and both are All Wheel Drive Small SUV's'

House down the block in 4 bedroom remodeled new roof and master bath full basement with attached garage for 149,000.


I dont feel sory for peopple paying 500 grand for a house worth must less and driving around in 50 thousand dollar cars they cannot afford and why pay that much in the first place.


People are way over the top Materialistic, Greedy, and worries about keeping up with the neighbors.

First mistake: They moved to California when they could have moved anywhere.

Why move to a state where a small house costs half a million?

Where it is impossible to live on two good salaries?

This is where my sympathy dries up.

Which part of the major life change did you miss? They were set up in accordance to their earned income and budgeted from there. When circumstances changed and they no longer could afford their lifestyle they THEN lost everything and have now found themselves in a pickle.

Empathy, sympathy, and compassion are not your strong suit are they?

We Have "Sextion 8 Housing" in my small midwest town where 1000's of central americans and kenyans and somalians and other africans have come to, they all are town homes recently built and apartment complexes that have been gutted and rebuilt from federal money and alot of that money is from the Farm Act they pass every year with all kinds of rural housing grant money riders...
All these immigrants can even get 0 interest loans for buying houses which they do when the banks give them o down payment thru other programs for them.

If you are a USA citizen U A F'ed. Het used to the streets cause more of you will be there soon as all the rich political talking heads try to remove trump.

Yep. I can only imagine the people needing the help are balking at such a permanant settlement. They would much rather have the charties handouts close by. That's a "teach a man to fish" type of thinking instead of constantly supplying the fish.

Renting a dang trailer would be much more comfortable than a hotel room!

Who do you think is paying for these motel stays??????

Well well well. I have a solution for you. Yes introducing bitcoin.

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