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Maxine Waters: “But I hope to give you a perspective to kind of give you some hope and some belief that this is a human-caused problem…”

On the recordAugust 13, 2019
But I hope to give you a perspective to kind of give you some hope and some belief that this is a human-caused problem that ultimately can be a human-solved problem as well.
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Maxine Waters
Democratic · California

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Waters emphasizes that homelessness is a solvable human issue.

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