Housing First turns all that upside down. It finds the permanent place to live first. It doesn't matter if the homeless person is still drinking or using drugs, because having a home is considered therapeutic by itself. Case workers are then around to help the person address the problems that caused him or her to be homeless.
Now a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association offers new support to the Housing First approach (...)by Joseph Shapiro at Health & Science npr.org
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