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The history of homelessness in the U.S. rears its head in the face of COVID-19

By Molly Beckhardt and WRAP on April 30, 2020
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Many will not remember this, but before the early 1980s, there weren't millions of homeless people in the United States. Contemporary homelessness was created by a federal government response to what was, at the time, considered a short-term economic crisis.

Federal Government Is Responsible for 25 Years of Failed Programs and Rising Homelessness

August 9, 2012
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The U.S. government’s McKinney-Vento Act was enacted 25 years ago to address the emergency needs of homeless people. Yet homelessness has escalated to historic levels because federal officials have defunded, dismantled, and sold off hundreds of thousands of affordable housing units, thus ensuring that more and more people become homeless.



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