Longreads Best of 2013 Postscript: Monica Potts on the Homeless Families of 'The Weeklies'

## The Weeklies

## 周刊

Monica Potts | The American Prospect | March 2013 | 29 minutes (7,360 words)

莫妮卡·波茨 |美国前景| 2013 年 3 月 | 29 分钟（7,360 字）

Monica Potts is a senior writer for The American Prospect.

莫妮卡·波茨是《美国展望》的资深作家。

I did the reporting for ‘The Weeklies,’ about homeless families living in a suburban hotel outside of Denver, Colorado, a year ago.

一年前，我为《周刊》报道了住在科罗拉多州丹佛市郊区一家酒店的无家可归家庭的情况。

I lived with in the Ramada Inn alongside the weeklies during December 2012, and five of the families there shaped my story.

2012 年 12 月，我住在华美达酒店 (Ramada Inn)，旁边还有周刊，那里的五个家庭塑造了我的故事。

Two of them are still living in hotels.

其中两人仍住在旅馆里。

In May, the Ramada Inn was upgraded and converted into a Super 8 Motel.

5月，华美达酒店升级改造为速8汽车旅馆。

It became more expensive.

它变得更贵了。

Bonnie, Andy, and their son Drew, the main subjects of the story, moved into an Extended Stay closer to Drew’s school in Denver.

故事的主角邦妮、安迪和他们的儿子德鲁搬进了靠近丹佛德鲁学校的长住公寓。

Bonnie and Andy have been telling me since last spring that they’re doing renovation work on a rental property owned by a family friend, and that they will move in when it’s done.

自去年春天以来，邦妮和安迪一直告诉我，他们正在对一位家庭朋友拥有的出租房产进行翻修工作，完工后他们就会搬进去。

They don’t have a firm date, however.

不过，他们还没有确定的日期。

After the story was published, I heard from a lot of people who said they saw school buses in their towns picking up school kids in hotel parking lots.

这篇报道发表后，我听到很多人说他们看到镇上的校车在酒店停车场接小学生。

Schools nationwide have reported a rise in student homelessness: some states have seen it double.

全国各地的学校报告称，学生无家可归现象有所增加：一些州的数字甚至翻了一番。

The housing crash and the recession that followed had the odd effect of creating both vacant housing and a homelessness crisis, neither of which is likely to be solved soon.

房地产市场崩溃和随之而来的经济衰退产生了奇怪的影响，造成了空置住房和无家可归者危机，而这两者都不太可能很快得到解决。

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