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These encampment sweeps may also reduce people’s access to voting, @SFPublicPress found in a separate investigation. Lack of ID has other effects too, such as reducing people’s access to housing, city programs and medical help. “Replacement IDs cost money, they take time, they slow everything down,” said Joe Wilson, executive director of nonprofit Hospitality House.

https://www.sfpublicpress.org/encampment-sweeps-uptick-homeless-people-losing-identification-access-to-services-voting/

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