‘It’s the most stressful thing’: rising US gas prices deal new blow to homeless

Fuel prices are soaring across America as the Ukraine crisis bites - bad news for those trying to stay warm in their cars

For the past five months Anna Hokuf has lived in her car with her cat after she left an abusive home environment. Trying to save enough money to secure an apartment doing odd jobs while homeless has been hard enough for the 19-year-old. Now rising gas prices have made it all but impossible.

I don't have the ability to save much money and gas prices being as high as they are at almost $4 a gallon really makes being homeless tough," said Hokuf, of the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, area. I have to keep my car on all the time to stay warm and to keep my cat warm, which wastes more gas and has caused a strain on my car."