Americans swap homes for motels and say to each other:"At least we have our health."

"In many areas shelters are now completely full, so the only option to keep their families together is to rent a motel room for $200 a week. That's pretty standard for many who lost their homes to foreclosure," said Michael Stoops, executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless.

SHOOT: Health will be quite aprecious commodity in itself once swine flu starts to really snort through the population.

clipped from news.yahoo.com CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) – Some Americans are swapping homes for motels as the ranks of the homeless swell during the recession, crowding out shelters and forcing cities and states across the country to find new types of housing. In Massachusetts, a record number of families are being put up in motels due to high unemployment and the rising number of homes going into foreclosure, costing taxpayers $2 million per month but providing a lifeline for desperate families. "I feel like this has saved my life," said Tarya Seagraves-Quee, a 37-year-old former nurse. Seagraves-Quee has lived in a cramped one-bedroom suite in a hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with three of her four children for nearly two months. "I'm managing the best way possible. I've learned to make things in the microwave oven."