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What It Will Take to End Homelessness
Author(s) -
Johnston Mark,
Kunkel Laura
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
world medical and health policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.326
H-Index - 11
ISSN - 1948-4682
DOI - 10.1002/wmh3.91
Subject(s) - government (linguistics) , psychological intervention , set (abstract data type) , sociology , public administration , public relations , political science , psychology , computer science , psychiatry , philosophy , linguistics , programming language
On any given night, there are more than 600,000 people sleeping on the streets, in their cars or abandoned buildings, or in homeless shelters. Set against this humbling backdrop is a remarkable and ambitious national goal to end homelessness—the first of its kind to not simply address, but end, the problem. The U.S. government learned a lot from research and trial and error over the years in terms of what are the best interventions to confront homelessness. The policies discussed here are based on data and evidence‐based practices. It is possible to end homelessness and, with sufficient resources, it can be done .