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About 1.4 million individuals in the USA find yourself in homeless shelters annually, and several other thousand extra stay on the streets. You could possibly fill San Diego with homeless individuals. The issue appears big, tragic and insoluble. However there are confirmed options. For the chronically homeless, a key technique is supportive housing, which supplies not solely a secure house but additionally providers resembling on-site psychological and medical care. the The New Yorker Contributor Jennifer Egan has spent the previous yr following a number of people who’ve been homeless for lengthy intervals of time as they transfer into a brand new supportive housing constructing in New York. “Is it simple to collect individuals with this sort of troublesome historical past in a single place in eight months? No,” she informed David Remnick. “Does it work? From what I’ve seen, the reply is sure.” In keeping with one estimate, addressing the nation’s homelessness downside will price about ten billion {dollars}. However Egan argues that this quantity pales compared to what we spend on the issue within the type of emergency medical care, emergency shelters, and different partial options. “No person needs to see this line merchandise within the price range, however we’re already spending it in all these methods,” she says. “We’re bleeding cash on this subject.”
(tags for translation) homelessness
