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Wealthy Texas county contains growing homeless population

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    Chronic unemployment leads to chronic homelessness

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Collin county among the wealthiest counties in Texas.

Boasts more than twenty golf courses and Mecca of luxury cars corporate headquarters tens of shopping in high end homes.

But now homelessness.

Is a growing part of the landscape.

According to the county's homeless coalition the population grew a stunning 44%.

Over last.

Here it's exploded the numbers have absolutely exploded -- weekends or a 160 people.

-- full every single day of the year were turning away about fifty people week I think it's long term unemployment that the primary reason people -- up and our doors to TV is one of the casualties.

At California he heard Texas was the land of job opportunity.

-- -- -- the bus last march and headed east with 55 dollars in his pocket and a dream of building new life.

At first he landed a couple of jobs but it since dried out.

I -- can't win he spent a couple of nights sleeping in the streets before coming to the samaritan in Collin county's only shelter his wife was skiing.

Far.

It's stressful.

Is it really is he trying to you know -- you -- It is stressful and like most suddenly homeless Dionte has a family.

And it doesn't discriminate there people at the in with and without college degrees.

Montana is considered one of the wealthiest counties in Texas and so people within their it now homeless problem and I am here tell you that is not the truth.

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