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In the News - RI keeps adding shelter space for the homeless, but it's never enough. Why demand grows

The increase in unhoused people is a post-pandemic phenomenon

By Wheeler Cowperthwaite - Published in the Providence Journal

What shelter beds? That's what advocates for the homeless, service providers and protesters are asking as cities and towns across the state raid homeless encampments and say that the people being displaced or arrested – whose belongings are often thrown away – have been offered shelter.

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