Today's New York Times had an interesting article recently entitled "A Plan to make Homelessness History" http://nyti.ms/dKCyna Worth a read. It refers to a program in the US called "100,000 Homes" which has a goal of placing 100,000 chronically homeless people into permanent supportive housing by July 2013. They started less than 6 months ago and have placed almost 7,000 already, on track for 100,000 by 2013. The article reports that when cities decide to make a concerted effort to reduce homelessness, they succeed.
Large cities like New York and LA are on board as are smaller ones like Norfolk VA (population 230,000) and Wichita Kansas, that aren't much bigger than Richmond.
Wow, that's a great initiative. Maybe we should have a target of 100 homes for Richmond?
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