Saturday, February 26, 2005
Not just the status quo.
Across the Triangle and across the nation, local efforts to end homelessness in ten years are moving forward. A key point from the News and Observer article:
Philip Mangano, executive director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, was in North Carolina for meetings in Orange County, Raleigh and other towns.
He not only urged officials to push beyond the status quo, he suggested that they recast the issue in different ways, especially when it comes to trying to persuade the public to invest more in stamping out homelessness.
Several cities have done financial studies that show that millions of public dollars already are being invested in the homeless population -- for emergency room visits and jail stays for minor offenses. By investing that money, instead, in housing, many of those costs could be cut dramatically, advocates for the homeless say.
-# posted by Michael McGee @ 4:13 PM
