Amy Goodman
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"Reagan's wet dream of neoliberalism": The roots of San Francisco's homelessness crisis
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3:33Now PlayingFalsely claiming that San Francisco's homelessness crisis has caused water pollution, the Trump administration filed an environmental notice of violation against the city on Wednesday. The move has sparked outrage from homeless rights activists, who say that by placing the blame on the state of California, Trump is neglecting the responsibilities of the federal government's Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to address the nationwide problem of homelessness. "We're commodifying our public parks and streets through business improvement districts now running whole neighborhoods, so we need to understand that neoliberalism is killing our country," says homeless rights advocate Paul Boden, who points out that HUD has been gutting funding for affordable housing since the Reagan era. "Restore that funding, look at the cause and effect of eliminating that funding, and you'll see the numbers of homeless people go way down, because we all know nothing ends homelessness like a home."
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