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Gainesville community reaches out to homeless families

With unemployment rates over 10% and the continuing volume of house foreclosures displacing families, about 50,000 school-aged children went without homes, food, access to health care and educational opportunities last year in the sunshine state. Florida's 89.1, WUFT-FM's Stephanie Bechara reports on the crisis of family homelessness growing in Gainesville, claiming more victims with no place to live.

http://www.wuft.org/media/audio/BecharaFamHomelessnessProj 2.mp3

Stephanie is a reporter for WUFT News who may be contacted by calling 352-392-6397 or emailing news @wuft.org