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justiceischeap

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18. That's great work you did there.

Reply to DeSwiss (Reply #13)

Tue Jun 3, 2014, 10:52 AM

Jun 2014

These kind of programs only really work for sound structures though. The point I was trying to make is that there may be enough homes for the homeless to have 6 each but that doesn't mean those homes in that number could ever be lived in again, so really, it's not an honest assessment of the waste in the US... or maybe it is.

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