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My colleague Thomas Fuller wrote about how he stumbled across yet another twist in the homelessness crisis. Here’s his dispatch:

It’s the innocuous questions that sometimes elicit the most surprising answers.

Two months ago I asked a couple I had gotten to know at an Oakland homeless camp what kind of work they were finding.

The couple, Kim Hansen and John Hebbring, told me that they had scored a gig on Craigslist delivering eviction notices for a legal documents company. Both had been evicted in the past and now they were the ones knocking on doors.

“Believe me, we see the irony,” Mr. Hebbring told me.

[Read the full story here.]

The couple agreed to let me follow them around delivering eviction notices, opening a window onto a particular aspect of the gig economy.