Many more simply need a place to live in their new hometowns as they try desperately to sell their existing homes back from whence they came.

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Do you need a place to live?

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Every year, about 1.4 million families are formed that are ready to buy a new house, or need some place to live.

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Enter gumtree.com, an enormous online community that'll help you find a place to live and all the furniture you need to fill it, a job, something to do on the weekend, and even a love life.

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According to the plan, when the homeless have found a permanent place to live, the state will offer them whatever social services they need to succeed in that house, from substance-abuse counseling to simple help in learning how to shop or how to balance a checkbook.

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