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A Solution For Homelessness?

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Abhijeet Chavan
27 August 2003 - 10:00am

The Interagency Council on Homelessness is charged with the ambitious task of ending chronic homelessness in ten years.

"Ending chronic homelessness in ten years is the lofty task set out by the Interagency Council on Homelessness...Rather than shuttling expensively from shelter to prison to hospital, the homeless will get a place they can more or less call home. And the government will save money...The US Conference of Mayors has endorsed the ten-year plan, reflecting a change of emphasis at the local level, too. Cities such as Philadelphia, New York and Chicago have started to try to move their chronic homeless from shelters to supportive housing of one sort or another."

Full Story: Gimme a roof over my head
Source: The Economist, August 21, 2003
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