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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.



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Street Spirit Newspaper
1740 Alcatraz Ave, Berkeley, CA 94703