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Searching for Strategies to Help the Homeless (Morning Edition)

Date Published: July 18, 2006
Publisher: National Public Radio
Author: Renee Montagne

There are about 2.5 million homeless people in America. One in ten will be on the streets for years, possibly decades. Renee Montagne speaks with Darren Walker, of the Rockefeller Foundation, about strategies to help the homeless.

5 minutes


DO WE HAVE THE WILL?

People who are chronically homeless and who are not housed create very, very difficult circumstances in our cities. And wouldn’t it make better sense - wouldn’t our sense of fairness and justice be met by providing them with a supportive housing unit?

This is not the 1980s when we were bewildered by this phenomenon. We understand it. We know what works. So the question is, do we have the will to actually implement what we know works, and what, quite frankly, doesn’t cost us any more money to do?

-- Darren Walker, The Rockefeller Foundation
July 18, 2006 Interview with National Public Radio