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How this city moved 25,000 people from the streets into homes of their own

By Michael Kimmelman
New York Times·
30 mins to read

The fourth-largest city in the US hasn't solved homelessness, but its remarkable progress can suggest a way forward.

One steamy morning last July, Ana Rausch commandeered a shady corner of a parking lot on the northwest side of Houston. Downing a jumbo iced coffee, she issued brisk orders to a dozen outreach workers toting iPads. Her attention was fixed on a highway underpass nearby, where a handful of people were living in tents and cardboard lean-tos. As a vice president

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