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An advocacy group for the homeless is seeing an increase in homeless families as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

Robert Smiley, founder of The Hand Up Project, based out of Everett, said 30% of the homeless people they come across are now made up of families.

"We are running into more families out there that are economically displaced," said Smiley. "They lost their jobs unexpectedly, the money is just not there and now they've got to survive."

On Saturday morning, Smiley and volunteers for The Hand Up Project, began a massive clean-up effort at a homeless camp off of Everett Mall Way and Third Avenue. The group had spent weeks moving the people who were living there out.

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