Amid record homelessness, a Texas think tank tries to upend how states tackle it
![There is a record high rate of homelessness in the United States. An annual federal count found some 650,000 unhoused people on a single night in 2023.](https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2024/05/15/gettyimages-1991055048_wide-e736913971504eddd7ee8660bace2dc4c7d03068.jpg)
The conservative Cicero Institute is working with states to ban street camps, and shift money away from housing to addiction treatment. Homelessness advocates says such moves are counterproductive.
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