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Examining Homelessness
Date: 11/17/2008 05:28 pm
An article from Cornell University investigates the homelessness epidemic as it plays out in Tompkins County, New York. Students across the country have demonstrated their concern for the issue, and this investigative piece examines the issue from a host of angles—including that fact that student communities, like those of Ithaca College and Cornell, complicate the housing market by creating high levels of competition for affordable rental units and by driving up housing costs. Two graduate students at the University of Kansas have organized a demonstration to raise awareness of violence against the homeless in the wake of two beatings of homeless people in Lawrence.
