Sebastian Rios (3rd R), plays with his brothers Ronaldo (R), and Jordey (2nd R) inside a train in New York, December 22, 2011. Their mother, Laura Rios, has spent the past year living in a small two bedroom homeless shelter in New York. Rios and her children are among 95 families living in the two storey brick building home to some 300 children. In a report issued earlier this month, the National Center on Family Homelessness, based in Needham, Massachusetts, said 1.6 million children were living on the streets of the United States last year or in shelters, motels and doubled-up with other families. That marked a 38 percent jump in child homelessness since 2007 and Ellen Bassuk, the center's president, attributes the increase to fallout from the U.S. recession and a surge in the number of extremely poor households headed by women. Photo taken December 22, 2011. To match Feature USA-HOMELESS/ REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY POVERTY)