Homelessness: How to End the National Crisis

Homelessness: How to End the National CrisisBarely two decades ago the world's experts in housing policy were giving Canada high marks for its progressive housing policies. Until recently, our own common understanding of homelessness had been limited to occasional wanderers, eccentrics, boozers or addicts. Yet, as a new century dawns, homelessness as we recognize it has changed and grown, offering painful reminders of the soup kitchen lineups of the depression era. Homelessness is a rapidly