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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “50% of the homeless in this country are in California.”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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Published | Video Starts at 42:58

And most of them are there because of an unexpected expense. You know, two flat tires at the same time. And it's not an accident that 50% of the homeless in this country are in California. Homelessness is related to one correlate which is housing prices. That's what it is. So the higher the housing prices of that city, the more homeless you're going to have. (42:58–43:04)

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Asserts that half of the U.S. homeless population resides in California.

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