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News Photo by Julie Riddle Pastor Daniel Williams and volunteers Sharon Church and Rusty, Jessica, and Charlie McEwen display food and supplies available for free at a food pantry to fight homelessness at Beaver Lake Community Church in Lachine last week.
ALPENA When businesses were disrupted and people lost jobs because of the coronavirus pandemic, many Northeast Michiganders found themselves suddenly without income.
For some, that meant also being suddenly without a home, according to Traci Schuelke, of the Northeast Michigan Community Service Agency.
As an intake specialist for NEMCSA, Schuelke saw more first-time homelessness in 2020 than in previous years as people who never thought it would happen to them lost their jobs or were furloughed, th eir rainy-day funds depleted as unemployment benefits or stimulus payments that were slow to drive.
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