Friday news roundup 10/25/13

CBPP: Nov. 1 SNAP cuts will affect millions of children, seniors, and people with disabilities

NPR (via HACLA): L.A. puts chronically homeless in the front of housing line

MetroTrends: Why housing policy really is education policy

New York Review of Books: Fifty years after Lyndon Johnson declared a “War on Poverty,” the richest country in the world no longer cares if millions of its less fortunate citizens live or die

Next City: Reforming how local governments do procurement

NHC: What our neighbors can teach us about working families

NLIHC: New Jersey advocates and congressman hold forum on sequestration impacts

Off the Charts: Long-term unemployment remains near historic highs

Rooflines: The Feds bow out: we're on our own