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Ben Carson: Housing First, I think, gets a bad name because people think we are just getting people off the street, and then we are…

On the recordOctober 11, 2017
Housing First, I think, gets a bad name because people think we are just getting people off the street, and then we are forgetting about them.
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Ben Carson

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Defense of the Housing First approach to homelessness.

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