Economic Stress Takes A Toll On Families

[The Straight Story]

Economic Stress Takes A Toll On Families


Sacramento, CA- When Floyd Munds lost his home of 19-years to foreclosure the stress was almost overwhelming. "I didn't have the energy to keep going on sometimes, because, it was like, why? I'm losing everything. What's the good?"

Then it got worse. "With the stress, I guess it was affecting the blood pressure," he says, adding he also found out he was on the borderline of becoming diabetic.

Floyd is still close to his former wife, Virginia Munds, who says the stress of not being able to take her children and grandchildren to the home they once shared was painful. "Because I can't do anything. I can't fix it. You just want to do stuff and not see the little ones affected by it," she says.

At Sacramento Crisis Nursury, every bed has been filled the last two weeks and Director Sue Bonk says the economy is the reason. "There are no jobs, and the stress level in people's lives is just getting over the top."

Bonk says forclosures are affecting many families who rent homes, leaving more and more people suddenly homeless. "At six-thirty last Friday night, we had three homeless children whose mom that morning had been told she had to get out of the house she was renting because it was going into foreclosure."

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