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  • Dying Not Under a Bridge, Nor Living in an E.R.

    Ankita Rao

    September 10, 2013 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    Housing First programs enable homeless people to attain health care services and a place to live– which, advocates say, ultimately saves taxpayers money. One woman's story is a revival of dignity, if not health.

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  • Teaming Up to End Homelessness

    Tina Rosenberg

    September 12, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    There are about 67,000 homeless veterans in the United States today, and at least a third are chronically homeless. The 100,000 Homes Campaign, which aims to get 100,000 chronically homeless or otherwise particularly vulnerable people into housing, supercharged the housing process this summer using Rapid Results — a strategy that helps communities jump-start projects by breaking off a 100-day chunk, setting wildly ambitious goals and using any (legal) means necessary to achieve them.

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  • The Street-Level Solution

    David Bornstein

    December 24, 2010 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Many of the errors in our homelessness policies have stemmed from the conception that the homeless are a homogeneous group. It’s only in the past 15 years that organizations like Common Ground, and others, have taken a more granular, street-level view of the problem — disaggregating the “episodically homeless” from the “chronically homeless” in order to understand their needs at an individual level.

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  • A Plan to Make Homelessness History

    David Bornstein

    December 20, 2010 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    By partnering with cities across America, the 100,000 Homes campaign is going directly to the streets to end homelessness - and it’s working. With roughly 700,000 people in the United States experiencing homelessness, this organization seeks to address that using a tiered system that considers individual health needs as well.

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  • Reaching into a void: For mayor's team of street crusaders, getting the chronically homeless into housing requires patience as they battle their addictions -- and persistence if they relapse

    Kevin Fagan

    December 06, 2004 |

    SFGate |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    San Francisco's Care Not Cash program began in 2004 in response to the city's homelessness crisis. One facet of the program is an outreach team, whose members regularly visit homeless people on the street to connect them to resources such as housing and drug rehabilitation.

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  • Success in the Big Apple: New York City finds path for mentally ill / Housing homeless before treatment bucks conventional wisdom

    Kevin Fagan

    June 14, 2004 |

    SFGate |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    In San Francisco, 23 percent of homeless people return to the street after transitional housing programs. A New York program gives the mentally ill and homeless individual apartments alongside average New Yorkers and has had an 84 percent retention rate.

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  • Success in the City of Brotherly Love / The city that knows how - Philly Philadelphia / Effort stems tide of homelessness -- can S.F. learn from it?

    Kevin Fagan

    June 13, 2004 |

    SFGate |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia reduced chronic homelessness by coordinating outreach through a centralized office and providing immediate access to housing and services such as counseling and drug rehabilitation. San Francisco is studying the model.

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  • Shame of the city: Signs of hope in helping S.F. homeless turn lives around / On-site medical, psychiatric aid makes housing program work at reasonable cost

    Kevin Fagan

    May 09, 2004 |

    San Francisco Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    In the U.S. most supportive housing programs have a 75 percent turnover rate, meaning people end up in the streets again. Direct Access to Housing in California manages a turnover rate of only 15 percent by providing a home, counseling, and financial management.

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  • Solving San Francisco's crisis of homelessness requires a sweeping, costly plan for housing and treatment - and political unity that has been missing for two decades

    Kevin Fagan

    December 04, 2003 |

    SFGate |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    To combat rampant homelessness, cities like New York are investing in supportive housing and comprehensive, consistent services for the homeless population. Although San Francisco has smaller-scale supportive housing programs. political will and regular funding are necessary to grow those initiatives and make a large impact on homelessness in the city.

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