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CityLab Daily: The Biggest Flaw in Trump's Homelessness Plan
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Roughing it: Last week, President Donald Trump spent considerable energy on the housing crisis on a visit to California, and it went just about how you might expect. “Like so many Infrastructure Weeks before it, President Trump’s Housing Week did not exactly go off without a hitch,” CityLab’s Kriston Capps writes. But it did produce a document that could have lasting consequences: a new report on homelessness from Trump’s Council of Economic Advisors. The paper lays out a conservative template for addressing homelessness, with more police, more market-rate housing, and more strings attached to aid.