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Melvin Watt: “Most of them do not really give much of an [expletive deleted] about poor people and whether they have housing or not…”

On the recordJune 26, 2013
Most of them do not really give much of an [expletive deleted] about poor people and whether they have housing or not, and it seems to me that an over-emphasis in that direction can only make matters worse.
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Melvin Watt
North Carolina

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Watt criticizes neglect of poor people's housing needs.

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