Glad to hear the Obama administration focusing on ending homelessness once and for all
“No one should be without a safe, stable place to call home, and today we unveil a plan that will put our nation on the path toward ending all types of homelessness,” HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan, who heads the 19-agency council, said in a statement.
via Administration broadens effort to fight homelessness.
It begins with have a stable and permanent housing situation. From there one can begin to look for employment.
This Housing First philosophy has been embraced in the District and elsewhere. In D.C., it has helped place about 1,000 people in homes, said Linda Kaufman, chief operating officer of Pathways to Housing, which works with several hundred mentally ill, chronically homeless people. “If you don’t do housing, you can’t address the issues of homelessness,” she said.
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