Housing fund cuts will add 4,000 to state's homeless, officials say
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Cuts to the Missouri Housing Trust Fund will drive up the state's homeless by as many as 4,000 next year -- many of them children -- as well as throw up a major hurdle for poorer families across the state trying to make sure they don't join their ranks, officials said Wednesday.
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