However, there are 3,ooo people qualified as homeless.
Public housing (whether in scattered single family homes, multi-family complexes, or apartment buildings for the elderly) is reserved for low-income families and individuals.
As Martha Burt (1992) points out, the accuracy of the count of homeless people is important depending on what policies (if any) the numbers will be used to guide. As she explains, policy implications differ significantly depending on whether the count is intended to determine the number of beds needed to keep everyone sheltered on one particular night or the number of units of housing or vouchers needed to ensure that everyone is permanently housed.
The vast majority of studies on homelessness concentrate on urban poverty. Rural homelessness, which appears to be a very different phenomenon, is all but ignored in most research. From the little that is known, however, one of the most prominent differences between the rural and urban homeless is the much higher percentage of the rural homeless who are married. As is true with rural populations as a whole, the rural homeless are also less likely than their urban counterparts to be members of ethnic minorities.
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Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Homeless Families Program (HFP) was launched in 1990 by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. he first federal response to homelessness emerged in the 1930s. Since then, the United States has addressed homelessness with a variety of direct and indirect measures involving government at the federal, state, and local levels, nonprofit organizations, the court system, and the private