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America Abandons Fight Against Homelessness
It has become clear in recent months that ending homelessness is no longer on America’s political radar screen. Terrorism, global warming, the war in Iraq, the ongoing health care crisis, rising gas prices---these are the issues that concern Americans, who have become as resigned to seeing people on the streets as they are to the latest Bush Administraton fiasco. UCSF’s recent study of San Francisco’s homeless population over the past 14 years was given front-page coverage in the San Francisco Chronicle, but it became a one-day news story whose message---that most of San Francisco’s chronic homeless have been on the streets since the 1980’s---received little discussion. This overlooked study conclusively shows how the Reagan Administration’s dramatic cuts in federal housing subsidies remains the chief cause of homelessness, yet there is little or no pressure on the Bush or Schwarzenegger Administration’s to address the problem.
It has become clear in recent months that ending homelessness is no longer on America’s political radar screen. Terrorism, global warming, the war in Iraq, the ongoing health care crisis, rising gas prices---these are the issues that concern Americans, who have become as resigned to seeing people on the streets as they are to the latest Bush Administraton fiasco. UCSF’s recent study of San Francisco’s homeless population over the past 14 years was given front-page coverage in the San Francisco Chronicle, but it became a one-day news story whose message---that most of San Francisco’s chronic homeless have been on the streets since the 1980’s---received little discussion. This overlooked study conclusively shows how the Reagan Administration’s dramatic cuts in federal housing subsidies remains the chief cause of homelessness, yet there is little or no pressure on the Bush or Schwarzenegger Administration’s to address the problem.
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