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Kansas City Has Tried for Years to Reduce Homelessness. What’s Different This Time?
Housing Gateway aims to move 600 people into housing in its first year, but homelessness has continued to grow despite years of city initiatives.
Kansas City has spent years trying to reduce homelessness. It created a Houseless Task Force, put people into hotels during the pandemic, backed a housing…
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