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Housing First is a simple philosophy that dictates that the most vulnerable and chronic people experiencing homelessness be offered the choice to move into permanent housing combined with available supportive services (“permanent supportive housing”) right away. It discourages imposing conditions on permanent housing, whether related to health, employment or sobriety. This approach has a documented track record of ending people’s homelessness while often encouraging them to make their own choices to get healthy, quit drugs and alcohol, and find employment when possible.
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on 60 min – feb 2014:
So far, the communities that have joined the campaign say they have housed more than 80,000 people nationwide. Kanis says research shows these people spend less time in expensive emergency rooms and hospital beds when they have housing. “We are paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing than we would be paying to just give them an apartment,” she says.
Anderson Cooper on 60 minutes- how the segment changed him – how i see people now.
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