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"“The driver in homelessness is the affordable housing crisis,” Roman said. “If we don’t do something to address the crisis in affordable housing we are not going to solve homelessness.”
She said many of the chronically homeless have mental health and substance abuse problems. Others, she said, simply cannot afford housing."
Three quarters of a million people.
Absolutely staggering.