Helping chronically homeless persons
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2015 4:48 pm
I have suggested ethical belief 00134: We should help a chronically homeless person by first providing permanent and supportive housing. A chronically homeless person is one who has been continuously homeless for a year or more, or intermittently homeless for three years or more (HUD definition.)
This approach has been demonstrated to be best in the United States, being both extremely effective and costing less than letting persons remain chronically homeless. Please see:
"Room for Improvement," Mother Jones (magazine,) March-April 2015, pp 30-39
http://www.housingfirstcharmeck.org/faq/ question 2
http://www.urbanministrycenter.org/help ... -homeless/
HUD (the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development) also says a chronically homeless person must have some (physical or mental) disability. However, essentially every person who has been continuously homeless for a year or more, or intermittently homeless for three years or more, has such a disability, although it may not have been diagnosed yet.
Research shows that while the chronically homeless make-up only about 10% of the overall homeless population, they utilize 50% of the homeless resources. The situational homeless make-up about 90% of the homeless, usually due to one problem, and are homeless for about two months on average.
This approach has been demonstrated to be best in the United States, being both extremely effective and costing less than letting persons remain chronically homeless. Please see:
"Room for Improvement," Mother Jones (magazine,) March-April 2015, pp 30-39
http://www.housingfirstcharmeck.org/faq/ question 2
http://www.urbanministrycenter.org/help ... -homeless/
HUD (the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development) also says a chronically homeless person must have some (physical or mental) disability. However, essentially every person who has been continuously homeless for a year or more, or intermittently homeless for three years or more, has such a disability, although it may not have been diagnosed yet.
Research shows that while the chronically homeless make-up only about 10% of the overall homeless population, they utilize 50% of the homeless resources. The situational homeless make-up about 90% of the homeless, usually due to one problem, and are homeless for about two months on average.