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Congress is 35 years overdue on its promise to end homelessness
Thirty-five years ago this month, the first major federal law addressing homelessness was enacted. Now known as the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, it was an emergency response to what was then a new, fast-growing national crisis.   Funding primarily emergency shelters, it was supposed to be a first step, to be followed by longer-term solutions in the form of permanent housing.  Decades later, those next steps have yet to come. Meanwhile, encampments dot communities across the country. Many Americans, having lost their own homes, are sleeping on the floors or couches of friends and relatives, living in their cars, or in makeshift tents.   When millions lost their homes du

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