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A Lee Enterprises, Incorporated newspaper. Majority shareholder: David Hoffmann, Hoffmann Media Group.
Working but poor, many families are trapped in extended-stay hotels
- MICHAEL E. KANELL The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Mar 28, 2020
- Mar 28, 2020 Updated May 3, 2020
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Maria and Tony Fernandez share their bed watching TV in their extended stay hotel room, where they live with their teenage daughter Sussette, in Norcross, Ga., last month. No one knows the precise number, but thousands of families around metro Atlanta live in extended stay hotels. They are typically working poor, people who make enough money to sort of get by day-to-day, but they don't make enough to get themselves a stable apartment and certainly not to buy a home.
- HYOSUB SHIN, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Quwahana Anderson can't hold her tears back as she shares her story living in an extended stay hotel room with her children in Norcross, Ga.
- HYOSUB SHIN, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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MICHAEL E. KANELL The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
NORCROSS, Ga. — They came to metro Atlanta with hopes of a new life, renting a house in Duluth and enrolling their two children in school while they looked for jobs — she in medical administration, he selling cars.
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Maria and Tony Fernandez share their bed watching TV in their extended stay hotel room, where they live with their teenage daughter Sussette, in Norcross, Ga., last month. No one knows the precise number, but thousands of families around metro Atlanta live in extended stay hotels. They are typically working poor, people who make enough money to sort of get by day-to-day, but they don't make enough to get themselves a stable apartment and certainly not to buy a home.
- HYOSUB SHIN, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Quwahana Anderson can't hold her tears back as she shares her story living in an extended stay hotel room with her children in Norcross, Ga.
- HYOSUB SHIN, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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