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Epic Economist, 10/24/26
"America's Motel Families:
Inside the Rooms Where Kids Now Live"
"All across America, families with kids are now living in weekly motels, and most people drive right past them without ever wondering what happens behind those doors. In this video, Faith and Ray go from motel to motel and let the families show it from their side: a family of 7 marking 365 days living in a motel, a mom and her two girls who have lived in an extended stay motel for a year and a half and somehow turned it into home, a mom of three paying $58 a day with no privacy at all, a Monday of cooking and cleaning for seven people in one room, a family living in a hotel full-time and cooking everything in a crock pot, a mom with 4 kids under 6 who had to spend her rainy day money on a hotel after a storm knocked out the power, a mom who has spent about $60,000 in three years living in motels, roughly $1,600 a month, and says "if I'm homeless, then so are you if you're still renting", and a mom with a baby paying $60 a night for a dusty motel room while she saves up to get back home. No apartment, no backyard, no oven, just two beds, a microwave, a mini fridge and a TV. This is what the cost of living crisis, eviction and the housing crisis look like for American kids right now, told by the families who are living it every single day."
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