Summary
Many more stay. The construction industry, small businesses, and even agriculture have suffered considerable losses. This has affected Latinos as ithas everyone else. Before the current economic downturn, many Latino families were already living on the edge. Housing even in the best of times was already hard for Latino families. It is estimated that many Latinos spend up to 59 percent of their annual income on rent or mortgages. Nationally, 26 percent of all Latinos live in seriously overcrowded conditions. This rate compares to 8 percent for African Americans and 4 percent for non-Hispanic whites. In other words, for too many Latinos housing was already something hard to afford and many Latinos had to live in overcrowded conditions with family or neighbors in order to avoid becoming homeless. Overall many Latinos occupy the lowest quality jobs available and in 2009 they experienced the highest increase in unemployment nationally compared to all other groups. How many homeless are Latino? No one is exactly sure, but it is in the thousands.
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Latinos and Homelessness
Just last week, while I was leaving my father's residence for home, I saw at the entrance to a Walmart store a Latino homeless individual who had a sign that re...
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