After interviewing homeless people around the U.S., Jonathan Kozol returned to his Boston-area hometown:
“I shared some of these stories with a woman who works at . . . a local grocery. “You didn’t have to go to San Antonio and Florida,” she said. “There’s hundreds of homeless families just a couple miles from here… In Ipswich, Gloucester, Haverhill . . . There are families . . . living in the basement of my church.” After a moment’s pause she told me: “After my husband lost his job—we had some troubles then, I was divorced . . . I had to bring my family to the church . . . Well, we’re still there.” p.8-9