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Homelessness Hides in Plain Sight. So Does Its Fix.

Notes from America with Kai Wright

CHAPTER

The Reality of Homelessness

One in every 14 Americans will experience homelessness at some point certainly there is this feeling now that it is on the rise but that's mostly concentrated in five states. 40% of people who are homeless have jobs so the image of homelessness which is sort of you know magnified by the appearance of unsheltered people often with mental health or addiction issues creates an impression that that is homelessness. In fact that's a very small number of people who fall into homelessness the system can work to help almost everybody else and even those people are not necessarily homeless. There is so much misunderstanding about being on a housing in the way that we're talking about and I want your help in that tonight.

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