Hi, Brian, I cried when I watched 60 Minutes Sunday night and I cried this morning as I listened to this segment. I slept on the subway in Manhattan and on the steps of a church. It is something that I would not wish on anybody. I couldn’t sleep and once somebody took the little money that I had. I chased after him shouting Police! and covered most of it. It is a very uncomfortable sort of life. I am glad that the little girl in Florida and her family have a place to live now and that her father has been offered a job. No more poverty! Ever! Eugenia Renskoff

I orginally watched the first segment of this program in March. I was quite touched and to be quite honest thought of those young people frequently. And when I saw it this Sunday. . . wow!!! I think of the attitude of the young lady and then compare it to many of the young people in our schools today .. . . . Unfortunately, there is a lot to be said for having to do without material things in asssting the maturing process.
I am a retired high school teacher.

The main cause of homelessness is the lack of political will on all levels of of government. In NYC, the same issues of corporate wealth and Wall St. financial speculation articulated by Occupy Wall Street undermine the political process in NY housing policy. Gov. Cuomo has to demonstrate that he has the will to confront the real cause of NY housing policy behind NYC homelesness - real estate political campaign contributions that finance senators like Pasada and Skelos. They prevented the repeal of the the vacancy decontrol and deregulation laws added to the Emergency Housing Act that gave landlords the means to remove affordable housing from the market. The senate did nothing to mandate a rental housing vacancy rate above 5%, at which point rent regulation would end by law. I suggest NYC renters advocate for a housing policy in Albany that creates an affordable housing market and addresses emergency shelter needs, by going to nycrentstrike.com and learn how to get Albany's attention.

Nick Lento
60 Minutes did a heartbreaking piece on this homeless family......white, from a middle class background and articulate. As could be expected given that millions of people watch the show, there is now an overwhelming response and it seems that their probems are over.....and that's fantastic! It's hearwarming to see that these kids are going to have a more normal life again and that this likeable carpenter will be making a good living again!

But the tragedy and the heartbreak continues for the millions of other Ameicans who are now either homeless or indanger of becoming homeless...and those numbers will include more and more people who used to feel secure in their middle class status.

What's needed is for massive and systemic changes to our economic policies and to the laws that govern when and how and where people are allowed to organize unions. In an America with a sane honest rule of law there would be more than enough wealth to spread so that no one need ever be homeless or jobless!

What we see happening is stark and simple. The rich are more filthy rich than ever before, the poor are getting poorer and more desperately poor.....all while the midle class continues to shrink and wither away....these trends are NOT SUSTAINABLE!

So long as most Americans don't vote...more and more of us will wind up like the Metzgers, and 60 Minutes has already done its post Thanksgiving story on a sympathetic homeless family for this year..........it kind of reminds me of the two turkeys that get
"pardoned" by whoever is in the Whte House...while the rest get slaughtered and eaten.

So long as we allow proto-fascistic corporatists to dominate our politics, things will only get worse...much worse as the global warming and associated pollution problems don't afford us the luxury of another hundred years of sliding downhill.

It really is all connected.

The iPad was free.

I guess CBS is taking a tip from public radio/ TV and charging people for content? Oh right, public radio/ TV only suggest that we pay...

And "Dimwit"? Really?? Ruppert? Is that you?

I see this all the time in Southern CA, it's pretty shocking how many people live in cars and old beat up campers. I'm sure that FL is a lot worse since the economy there is so broken.

And yes, those kids have incredible resolve, actually staggering. The parents must be incredible to hold it all together I know I couldn't.

[[Mike from Brooklyn I'm trying to watch this on the 60 Minutes website on my iPad, but have to buy the app for 5 bucks for the pleasure. Thanks corporate news media!!]]

...you spent more than 500 dollars on a tablet computer and now are balking at paying for CONTENT that you want to access?

How much are you paying monthly for web access on that thing?

Dimwit.

I tried to watch "60 Minutes", but the stupid football game was still on, past the time 60 Minutes was scheduled, so I gave up on broadcast TV and put a video on instead.

So where is Herman Cain or most of the other Republican candidates to kick these people from the segment while they are down and say "it's their fault"??

Just sayin'....

Um...no Brian, they don't live in their cars here so much..just in the streets and in subway stations...

I didn't see the show. But listening to this on the radio, it strikes me that, ironically, cars help bankrupt people in the first place. Yet no one ever looks at the price of buying them, maintaining them, gas, insurance ... yet it's the last asset anyone will give up. If we built communities where people could commute easier, they'd have more of their money left to spend on rent.

I'm trying to watch this on the 60 Minutes website on my iPad, but have to buy the app for 5 bucks for the pleasure. Thanks corporate news media!!

i would like to pay this family's rent (anonymously). how can i proceed?

it actually saddens me to hear of the 'surprised' response. proof that people don't know what isw happening around them - homelessness, police brutality, etc. I'm afraid, rather tends to believe, that the appreciation response of the public will push them even further away from the 'other' using the subconscious appreciation to appreciate how blessed we are.

How much are comes in central Florida going for these days? What is the median price of a rental? Shouldn't someone set up a "craigslist" for families seeking families to split the rent on a house?

Have you seen the Elizabeth Warren clip on healthcare causing foreclosures?

The race of the kids evoke strong emotion. There are lots of Brown and Black kids who have been living like this for years.

When will this be shown again as I would like to watch it with my children

Why haven't the kids living in cars been taken away from their parents?

Had drinks last night with a friend I hadn't seen in about 8 years and we talked about the 60 Minutes segment.

We wondered how to reconcile such a situations with the reports of shopping on Black Friday.

I've long said, partly in jest, but with underlying seriousness, that it would do kids (and maybe some adults) some real good, to go hungry for a couple of days. Then, they would better appreciate what they have, and sympathize with those that aren't as lucky.

The segment should be required viewing by kids in the schools -- all the way up to high school (or beyond!)

What about Section 8?

Wow, sounds like Ariel is talking to the liberals. Always complaining, taking things for granted - don't be so ungrateful, you may miss this country when you're done destroying it.

That was a heartbreaking segment

Such a striking story -- the maturity level of those "kids" was mind-blowing. Like the previous reports in this series it was fascinating to see how well adjusted the young people have been, possibly more than the adults.