Homelessness Rates Spike for Families, Putting Young Children at Risk

Homelessness Rates Spike for Families, Putting Young Children at Risk

In early February, Tateona Williams suffered the unthinkable. Around 1a.m. on a freezing cold Monday, she parked her van in a Detroit parking garage and kept her vehicle running so that she and her four children, plus her mother and her mother’s child, could stay warm. At some point in the night, the engine turned off. Her 9-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter stopped breathing and later died, apparently freezing to death.  Williams and her chi…