On the thin line between prosperity and homelessness

(November 8) – Mary Duffy wondered how it ever happened — how she came to be an outsider in her own community, displaced, unable to afford an apartment. It made no sense. She is a small-business owner, a hardworking member of the middle class, pulling in a respectable income. How in the world, at age 67, did she wind up here, renting this room in a Motel 6? “I passed frantic about three days ago,” she said. “I’ve never been in this kind of state — panic.”