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  "id": 9602187,
  "title": "Encampment sweeps and persistent homelessness among unhoused people who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada: A prospective cohort study",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/24/encampment-sweeps-and-persistent-homelessness-among-unhoused-people",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-24T14:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PLOS Medicine",
    "slug": "plos-medicine",
    "url": "https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1005033"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "by Kanna Hayashi, Eric C. Sayre, Jennifer McDermid, Samona Marsh, Caitlin Shane, Michael-John Sheridan Milloy, P.O.W.E.R. , Thomas Kerr Background Housing is a key determinant of health. In response to increasingly visible homelessness amid a growing housing crisis, many jurisdictions in North America forcibly displace unhoused people from public spaces, routinely confiscating their personal…",
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        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/this-is-torture-lives-of-congolese-people-disrupted-by-canadas-ebola",
        "published": "2026-09-22T16:19:05.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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