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Alpha Chen
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To explain the interplay between structural and individual causes of homelessness, some who study this issue use the analogy of children playing musical chairs.
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You can say that disability or lack of physical strength caused the individual kids to end up chairless. But in this scenario, chairlessness itself is an inevitability: The only reason anyone is without a chair is because there aren’t enough of them.
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Simply making homelessness less visible has come to be what constitutes “success.”
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