How one Minnesota county has been rapidly housing the homeless since the pandemic | CNN Politics With financial help from the federal pandemic aid packages passed by Congress, Hennepin County has been able to move at lightning-fast speed to implement a multilayer plan addressing housing and homelessness -- work that usually moves at a snail's pace. Katie Lobosco CNN

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One reason the county has been able to move so fast is that officials decided to allocate more than $90 million – representing roughly 40% of the pandemic funding it received from the federal government since March 2020 – to address homelessness and affordable housing. It also already had an extensive plan in place.

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