The idealism that had once animated her work in social services had, after she’d sat through countless webinars and conference plenaries and unveilings of strategic plans, been eroded by a creeping suspicion: that both the local and national response to homelessness was being hobbled by a kind of willful myopia. Instead of an honest assessment of why scores of people were continuing to become unhoused—poverty wages, out-of-control rents, greed, racism, gentrification—there was bloodless technocratic talk of “leveraging resources” and “program deliverables.” Instead of tenants’ rights workshops
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