Two-hundred households , primarily families, were provided emergency shelter in 1991. The Genesis Program is currently working with 64 teen mothers in the St. Vrain Valley Schools who have no homes. They find shelter for themselves and their babies in laundry rooms of apartment buildings or cars to keep warm at night. The Grey Area Youth Counselor in Longmont at any one time provides services to approximately thirty youth who have no permanent home. There have been no multiple housing starts in the city of Longmont for the last five years.
Housing is simply unavailable for many of the poor.
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