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T <br />Z 60.00% - --5516) <br />~ 49.82% 47.33% <br />N 50.00% -- ----- <br />'L' 40.00% 37.72% LL <br />m 30.D0% - -2A ~1= <br />v 20.00% °° 17'79% 1851% <br />- --rn4 r - - --- <br />10.D0% -- -5.34°1°_ 4.98.°(°_ <br />`0 0.00% - , <br />o° <br />ec~ aye po° ~e ec. a\`c ~y o~ \`ye ryc <br />~~Q\o~F Gr`aG cy~~,a ~e~`S.cP 2°~9e~ ec~,~,z ~\5e~ ~yy`a yce ~~ <br />.~~ G~yets tr ~eA o~y\c9 <br />Need for Assistance <br />Source: Homeless Issues Partnership <br />Chart 7: Need for Assistance, Corpus Christi, 2003 <br />According to the 2000 U.S Census, 272 people were in emergency and <br />transitional shelters in the Corpus Christi Metropolitan Statistical Area. <br />Qf that number 24 (8.8%) were under 18 years of age. Comparing to <br />national figures, 43,887 (25.7°/D) of the population in the U.S, in <br />emergency antl transitional shelters were under 18 years of age. A total <br />of 170,706 people were in emergency antl transitional shelters in US in <br />2000, <br />1'4' Lack of Affordable Housing- Most chronic homeless persons da <br />Reasons of not earn enough to cover the basic needs of living, such as food and <br />Chronic <br />Nom®lessness clothing, while others have very-low incomes, just enough to sustain <br />themselves. Paying mortgage or market rate rent would be <br />impossible in their economic condition. <br />Table 1, an the following page, provides details on rents paid by income <br />group. As logic would indicate, lower income groups are much more <br />10 <br />