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Counting the overlooked 'hidden homeless'
- May 18, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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A person asking for change on the corner or living in a makeshift dwelling outside is easy to identify as homeless or unhoused. But there's a segment of the population without permanent housing that goes unnoticed. Molly Richard, assistant professor of public health in the University of Rhode Island's College of Health Sciences, studies the homelessness crisis, including an overlooked form of homelessness called doubling up.
Originally published at Phys.org