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Oct 2023
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San Fransicko

Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri
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This week we're tackling "San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities," a book that dares to ask: What if everything that experts think about homelessness is wrong, and everything that one crank on Twitter thinks about homelessness is right?

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