Landing in uptown was the most -- it challenged my construct of the truly powerless, and I had in other times of my career both in and out of the Jewish community I had certainly met people who were living at or below the poverty level, but I had never met people who were completely homeless and, I had never met the institutionalized mentally-ill people who had spent their entire lives growing up in institutions and then being discharged to the street without services.

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