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Homeless Kids and Adults — Life Is About to Get Much Worse!
No surprise — the worst possible person was appointed as head of the obscure United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) by the worst possible administration to impose the worst possible conditions on millions of homeless kids and adults across America.
Senator Sherrod Brown (OH) explained the significance of this appointment, condemning the track record of Robert Marbut, whose job will be to lead the USICH. “The USICH coordinates the federal response to homelessness by working in close partnership with senior leaders across 19 federal member agencies and creating a national partnership at every level of government to reduce and end homelessness.
“It is a problem that the Trump Administration’s designee to head the Interagency Council on Homelessness may believe that it’s more important to stop churches from providing food to homeless people than it is to find those people homes. If true, this is yet another example of this administration obstructing efforts to end homelessness in this country,” said Brown.
War on homelessness usually means launching an effort to alleviate homelessness, albeit typically an insipid effort. In this case, we’re likely going to see a full-blown nuclear…