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Closing Housing Matters’ day services won’t hurt just the unhoused — it will push the working poor closer to crisis

The planned closure of Housing Matters’ day services – including public showers, bathrooms and mail access — is being framed as affecting only people experiencing homelessness, but it will also hit Santa Cruz’s working poor who rely on these essentials, writes housing scholar Erin Gaede.

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