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We Can End Homelessness Today. We Just Don’t Want To

How to solve America’s homelessness crisis

Coby Lefkowitz

May 31·15 min read

San Francisco city-sanctioned homeless encampment with social distancing squares across from city hall. Source: KTLA/Josh Edelson/AFP.

Homelessness is an artificially created problem. Though it’s a dire reality faced by hundreds of thousands of people daily, it’s a reality that need not exist. This isn’t just idealistic posturing.