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3 innovations helping the homeless in Eugene, Oregon

  • Written by Mohamed Hassan Awad, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, California State University, Los Angeles
Volunteers are building villages of tiny houses for formerly homeless people.Bruce Kelsh/Cottage Village Coalition, CC BY-SA

Even when the economy is booming, the United States has trouble figuring out how to deal with homelessness. Now, with unemployment soaring and millions of Americans unable to pay their rent, solutions are more needed than...

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