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Probably about a total of two weeks, if even that. So, it was very traumatic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was facing job troubles, and I ended up losing my job. I tried to get roommates. I tried really hard to look for work and I eventually ended up losing the house to foreclosure.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">In the US, roughly five to ten percent of people who are homeless have dogs and/or cats, according to the National Coalition for the Homeless.\n\u003cp>Service animals are accepted at all San Francisco shelters funded by The Human Services Agency. Non-service animals are only accepted at one of these 12 shelters. \u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When you’re the type of person (who has) lost so much in your life: everything’s been stripped from you; everything has been taken from you. 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Instead, they made a series of mistakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not a cohesive campaign targeted to Hispanics,\" says Bessie Ramirez of the Los Angeles-based Santiago Solutions Group, a Hispanic market research firm that has consulted for large health care clients like HealthNet, Cigna and Blue Cross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Frankly, it seems obvious that the launch of this program seemed to have actually turned a blind eye to what the needs of this particular consumer were,\" she says.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, one thing health policy experts love about Obamacare is that no one can be denied coverage for a pre-existing health condition. Covered California made this a selling point in almost all its Spanish ads. But that doesn’t resonate with Latinos. 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