It's natural that everyone would be trying to tell the incoming Trump administration what to do. As advocates for homelessness prevention, we're not short of ideas, either, and here's one.
Let's keep people housed.
That's not meant to be glib. Rather, it's the foundation of a more humane and cost-effective approach to the nation's homelessness crisis, which is now at record levels. And from a policy standpoint, we should all be able to agree that increasing the Child Tax Credit can make a positive impact.
One of the only things that President Donald Trump and former vice president Kamala Harris agreed on during the recent presidential campaign was the need to increase the federal Child Tax Credit. While their specific proposals differed, they both agreed that protecting the most vulnerable in society—women and children—starts with keeping them housed.
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