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The mayor's new housing policy has been a failure. Since its implementation last year, the number of homeless individuals in the city has risen by ten percent.
Which one of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?
- Comparable cities that adopted no such policy saw homelessness climb by twenty percent over the same year.
- The mayor's job-approval ratings stayed high throughout the year even as homelessness in the city kept rising.
- Many homeless residents reported that they found the new housing policy fairly hard to navigate or to access at all.
- The policy was designed chiefly to help homeless families with children, not unaccompanied single adults.
- The new policy was publicly announced by the mayor's office several months before its effective date.
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