Chapter 13. Communities At-Risk and Housing

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• Gentrification’s Micro Impact 
  A San Francisco resident displaced by gentrification shares his experiences.

• Is Section 8 Really Helping? 
  Rochester’s Section 8 voucher recipients have been struggling to get housing—a fair housing law has been proposed.

• The Daily Show: Homelessness Reduction in Utah 
  Salt Lake City’s Housing First Program has shown a 72% drop in homelessness.

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• Criminalizing Homelessness? 
  Cities attempt to take a roundabout way to ban the homeless from their streets.

• Homeless High School Students Are Often ‘Invisible’ 
  Over 1,000,000 U.S. high school students don’t have permanent homes; how can they be helped?