RFK Jr proposes federal solution to end homelessness: 'More important than funding wars'
Houston Keene
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Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. proposed using federal housing vouchers to combat homelessness, saying it’s "more important than funding wars."
Kennedy published a video on Monday in front of a homeless encampment south of Market Street in San Francisco.
"This is the Mission District south of Market [Street] and this is one of hundreds of street corners in San Francisco that has been occupied now by the homeless, by plastic shanties, by tents, and by people who are sleeping in the open air," Kennedy said in front of a tent.
"Part of the problem is mental illness and drug addiction, but it’s not the entire problem," Kennedy continued. "In fact, we can solve the homeless problem in this country. If you look at West Virginia, it has one of the highest addiction rates in the country but homelessness is a minor problem there."
Kennedy said that homelessness, "has its own ideology" and added, "part of that is that only one in four poor people in this country are receiving housing vouchers."
The Democrat presidential candidate then claimed that the U.S. "could solve the problem of homelessness on the federal level by providing homeless vouchers, Section 8 vouchers to homeless people."
"And we ought to be doing that," Kennedy said. "It’s more important than funding wars, it’s more important than funding overseas adventures."
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