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Article: Homelessness on rise; Housing alliance helps rebuild lives.(NEWS)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- April 15, 2009
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Byline: Lee Hammel
Yesabel Collazo's New Year's Eve consisted of winding up with her two children in a motel paid for by the state after getting evicted from her apartment.
It does not take a math major to figure out why the 27-year-old, who has undergone two surgeries for cancer, lost both her apartment ($550 rent per month) and car ($130 insurance per month). After quitting her job because the co-worker who drove her from her apartment in Southbridge to her work in Worcester quit the job, she was living on $518 a month from the state Department of Transitional Assistance, Ms. Collazo said.
Unlike the previous time she was evicted, when she ...