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  • The City's Cost of a Life Redeemed

    October 29, 2006 |

    San Francisco Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Making the transition from the street to permanent housing can be difficult - it's hard to force people to seek help. San Francisco works to help the homeless rise from the poverty cycle by pinpointing the most chronically homeless people on the street and urge them into services.

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  • Special Report: Abandoning our mentally ill

    March 19, 2006 |

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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    Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    With the promise of community care, psychiatric wards were unlocked 30 years ago. Today, the sickest patients live in squalor.

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  • Success in the Big Apple: New York City finds path for mentally ill / Housing homeless before treatment bucks conventional wisdom

    June 14, 2004 |

    SFGate |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    In San Francisco, 23 percent of homeless people return to the street after transitional housing programs. A New York program gives the mentally ill and homeless individual apartments alongside average New Yorkers and has had an 84 percent retention rate.

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