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Iowa Struggles to Help the Mentally Ill Homeless

Homelessness in Iowa has risen nearly forty percent since last year. With some 28,000 people homeless across the state, there's increasing pressure on a system that's struggled to help one population in particular: the homeless and mentally ill. Iowa Public Radio's Kate Wells reports.