At best it's confusion. At worst, denial.

Most people, including lawmakers, don't understand homelessness,
especially when it comes to invisible and uncounted families and teens
with no place to call home.

The majority of homeless families and teens live not in shelters but...

• DOUBLED-UP with family, friends or acquaintences or

• in MOTELS, often bouncing from place to place, paying obscene rates just to have a roof over their heads.

But Congress doesn't consider them homeless. HUD's definition of "HOMELESSNESS" excludes these families/youth.

Are they not homeless enough?
Do they not deserve housing and other government assistance?
Do they not count?

HEAR US believes they do count! And their plight needs to be acknowledged and addressed!

Beginning Oct. 2009, the HEAR US Learning Curve Express will give voice to these uncounted kids and adults.

HEAR US president and founder Diane Nilan
has begun traversing backroads across this country
and inviting articulate experts to share what it's like to live as America's nomads.

Diane is filming these interviews and posting short clips (with help from her video-tech crew at NIU) on the LCE YouTube page. Diane will then contact their local congressional offices and urge them to watch this short video so they can

hear and see their invisible, uncounted constituents.

See and hear invisible homeless families and teens. Share these clips.

Homeless kids count!