As US living costs soar, DC homelessness doubles national average

Washington

JUST across the snaking Anacostia River from the trendy Washington Navy Yard neighbourhood, are the Valley Place Family Apartments, a transitional housing complex for some of the most vulnerable residents of the nation's capital.

This is where two mothers, Anita White and Jasmine Kelly, wake up at dawn each day to make a life for their families. Ms White, 27, and Ms Kelly, 25, live in what amounts to a parall…