US Housing Crisis Pushing Up Homelessness


by Sherwood Ross
Global Research, February 1, 2009


Every Christmas season a large electric star visible for miles is illuminated on a mountainside overlooking Bethlehem, Pa., to commemorate the time the holy family of Christianity took refuge in a manger on the night of Christ’s birth.

This past Christmas, this city of 71,000---whose principal landmark is the rusting remains of the once thriving Bethlehem Steel Corporation---was unable to shelter its own growing number of homeless families from bitterly cold weather.

As in the New Testament account, there was no room at the inn for some and the city, citing “liability issues,â€