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Michael Raulerson: “It's much more expensive to put homeless people in prisons…”

Featuring: Michael Raulerson, Candidate, Fort Worth City Council, District 9 | Texas

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Fort Worth City Council District 9 Candidate Forum with Elizabeth Beck, Michael Rollerson, and Jenny Stewart

Published | Video Starts at 06:48

And I think right now, especially like what I was talking about earlier, is they use the police to target homelessness. It's much more expensive to put homeless people in prisons than it is to actually build publicly owned housing. to help members of the working class community that are on the verge of losing their homes and also the homeless population to actually rehabilitate them. (06:48–06:55)

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Asserts that it is more expensive to incarcerate homeless people than to build publicly owned housing.

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