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Gimme Shelter

Quartz and Marketplace look at the state of homelessness starting in the 1970s.

This week, Actuality examines a New York idealist’s battle to win homeless people the right to shelter in the 1970s—and why modern reformers have more ambitious plans to help those left behind when the rent is too high. Plus, a miracle exercise pill.



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