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The US Struggles with its Large Homeless Population - A bitterly-fought political campaign to address the rapidly-growing homeless population in a wealthy southern California county points to the yawning inequality gap in the US . A wide-ranging plan in southern California's Orange County that was intended to relocate hundreds of homeless — including ...

In San Francisco, rampant crime, soaring costs and a broken government are driving residents into the streets -- or out of state. View article...

Santa Monica Officials See Inequality in U.S. Homeless Funding : "Facing a dire situation to combat homelessness not only at the local and state level, but also national as well, the City of Santa Monica staff have worked ... See all stories on this topic » "

Homeless shelter crisis reveals unabashed attempt to legitimize inequality - What this says about us is up for debate. But as the old adage has it; we get the leadership we deserve. This is a crucial point in any discussion about how we treat the poor in Toronto. As Councillor Gord Perks has said of the current shelter crisis, on Twitter, “This was predictable. It was predicted and not ...