About 1,000 families in Orange County, California have been living in motels, many of whom have been forced out of their homes after going into foreclosures. Local officials said it is possible these families remain excluded from government homeless data because motels are supposedly for transients only.
Terry Lowe, community services director in Anaheim, has observed that newer demographics are modifying the picture of motel families. He related that in the past, families occupying motels as homes were those chronically struggling. Nowadays, according to him, more and more families from the middle-income group have been asking for help. Families, like 44-year-old Greg Hayworth’s, hit by foreclosures are among these new groups.
Hayworth, a Syracuse University graduate, made good money in mortgage finance and real estate. But when the downturn came, his business also collapsed and his landlord was among those hit by foreclosures. Without money to make a deposit in another rental, he and his family were forced to live in a small motel room, which they pay from week to week.
The Hayworths’ and their children share the single small room, sleeping on two beds and sharing most supplies, as most of their possessions are in storage. The situation is especially hard on their teenage daughter, who is ashamed of bringing friends home and often uncomfortable changing clothes with her brothers in the room. She was even mocked by her classmates after knowing she lived in a motel room.
Meanwhile, the Garza family started living in a room at a Costa Mesa motel in August 2008 after the family’s head Johnny lost his Target retail store job. Not long after, his wife also lost her Petco job. They were promptly evicted from their rental, as their landlord was also struggling to avoid foreclosures. Their eldest child, a nine-year-old daughter, and her two younger brothers share one bed, and their youngest, not yet one-year-old, sleeps in a crib.
Nan Roman, head of the National Alliance to End Homelessness in Washington, said he is hoping homeless families could get help from President Obama’s program which was primarily launched to stop foreclosures. The program allotted $1.5 billion to help the homeless, with some schemes to help them with rental security deposits and rent. He hopes that the aid together with assistance given by schools, social workers, counselors and food relief workers would help these families get out of homelessness and escape from the effects of foreclosures.
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John Cutts has been educated in the finer points of the foreclosures market over 5 years. Read articles about foreclosures information at ForeclosureDeals.com - Your online source for home foreclosures.
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