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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

The roots of homelessness

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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How Much of the Homelessness Problem in This Country Is the Direct Result of Our Housing Policies?

Sally Kohn: How much of the homelessness problem in this country is due to housing policies? She says it requires taking a step back to think about what we mean by causality. When you look at places that have high rates of mental illness and high rates of drug addiction, they don't see the level of homelessness. Kohn: What determines whether a state sees or an area sees high rates of homelessness is if there's enough housing for very low-income renters.

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