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Busting 3 common myths about homelessness

  • Written by Paul Toro, Professor of Psychology, Wayne State University
What do we really know about homelessness in the U.S.?Dmytro Zinkevych/shutterstock.com

As a young psychologist in the 1980s who had researched treatment of the mentally ill, I was concerned by many reports suggesting that the growing number of homeless people may be due to deinstitutionalization.

Over the past 30 years, my research group and I...

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