New Orleans Stumbles With Homeless Plan

"Since Katrina, the city's homeless population has doubled, according to groups that work with the homeless. Almost all the city's affordable housing was destroyed."

"So Louisiana came up with a bold plan to house the most desperate and hardest-to-help homeless people like Earl. The state is building thousands of new apartments and houses."

"They're for 'permanent supportive housing.' The idea is to give the most chronically homeless people a permanent place to live."

"Unlike in other programs, these people are not required to get off drugs or alcohol, or to get their mental illness under control before they can move in."

"But there's one problem: Homeless people are not moving in."

"That's because Congress never got around to coming up with the third part of the program."