Putting a face on the homelessness crisis

annaread
April 14, 2008

“Meet the Birketts,” the headline invites. Four months ago this middle-aged couple had a home and a mortgage, and then electrician Mark Birkett had a stroke. Now he has paralysis in one arm, is legally blind, and has a hole in his heart — literally, and because his family is scattered. Read their story.


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