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What Would It Take to End Homelessness?
Publisher/s
The New York Times
Author/s
Jill Cowan and Conor Dougherty
Abstract
Margot Kushel is having the moment she never wanted to have.
Dr. Kushel is an internist at the University of California, San Francisco. She started specializing in low-income populations shortly after graduating from the Yale School of Medicine, and has spent two decades researching the underlying causes and consequences of homelessness in relative anonymity.
Lately, however, she’s seen her profile rise, as the problem she has spent her career trying to solve has escalated.
Last year, Dr. Kushel was named director of the Benioff Homelessness Initiative at U.C.S.F., which was endowed with $30 million from Marc Benioff, the billionaire founder of Salesforce. The initiative is focused on translating proven homeless solutions into widespread adoption and continuing to research what isn’t known.