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This city has a plan to stop homelessness by the end of the year

January 28, 2020/No Comments

Rockford, Ill.

Less than a decade ago, more than 700 people were homeless in the small, 150,000-person city of Rockford, Illinois, about 90 miles northwest of Chicago. By the end of the year, the city expects that number will have shrunk to essentially zero—making it the first community in the U.S. to end homelessness.

By Adele Peters


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