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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Can all of LA's homeless people be housed by Thanksgiving?

    Los Angeles is the homeless capital of the country. Now a controversial activist is trying to spur public officials to act faster. Michael Weinstein of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation is buying motels to house homeless people.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Feb 15, 2018 • 1 min read

    Los Angeles is the homeless capital of the country. Now a controversial activist is trying to spur public officials to act faster. Michael Weinstein of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation is buying motels to house homeless people.

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      Madeleine Brand

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      Michael Weinstein

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    2 of 4
    What we know about the mass school shooting in Florida
    1. 0:00Who is the gunman behind the Florida mass school shooting?
    2. 8:43Can all of LA's homeless people be housed by Thanksgiving?You’re reading this
    3. 19:58Why the U.S. is still in Afghanistan more than 16 years after going to war
    4. 39:21Laughing over 'Poop Talk'
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