Providing Homeless Permanent Housing and Support Is Less Costly Than Abandoning Them

Mark Karlin @ Buzzflash - Nothing increases homelessness like income inequality. Other causes of people in the United States living without permanent shelter include a decrease in services for persons with mental health needs, less funds for agencies that provide homeless services (including places to sleep), foreclosures, domestic violence, loss of work, gentrification and the lack of availability of inexpensive single room occupancy housing, teenage runaways without resources, etc.  Read more.