By Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams
Housing advocates and experts on Wednesday applauded Rep. Cori Bush following her introduction of an Unhoused Bill of Rights, a resolution aimed at ending the U.S. homelessness crisis by 2025.
Bush (D-Mo.)—who was formerly unhoused—described the measure as “the first federal resolution to declare unalienable rights for unhoused persons and provide solutions to permanently end the crisis by 2025.”
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