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By stabilizing people through shelter, moving them into permanent housing, and engaging them in developed assistance programs to keep them in their long-term, permenant housing, we can not only reduce, but with collaboration with others help to eliminate, homelessness along our gulf Coast.
Since modern homelessness began more than fifty years ago, research and experience have overwhelmingly shown that investments in permanent housing are extraordinarily
effective in reducing homelessness — as well as in most
cases being cost-effective.
Many of the most successful housing-based policies designed to address the homelessness crisis — in particular, permanent supportive housing for individuals living with disabilities, Veterans, and other special needs —were pioneered in major metropolitan areas and replicated throughout the country. Working collaboratively with other nonprofits, we look forward to the day that we can begin the planning for a Family Homeless Shelter that will support services for more complex, critical, and long-term needs, such as addiction, basic education, job skills, and housing. Numerous research studies have consistently confirmed that long-term housing assistance not only successfully reduces homelessness — it is also less expensive than temporarily sheltering and other institutional care. Proven housing-based policies include:
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