Summary Of Home Free By James Surowiecki

James Surowiecki, the author of The Wisdom of Crowds is a writer on topics of business, economics and finance writes for the magazine, The New Yorker. His article “Home Free?” published in 2014 considers a solution to chronic homelessness in the United States, a problem often deemed unfixable. Surowiecki adopts an unsympathetic and analytical method as he identifies his audience as financially stable and fiscally minded middle class readers. He uses a specific case study and evidence that has already shown to work in order to persuade the reader. Using real-life facts and results from successful social programs, Suroweicki probes his audience to evaluate the effectiveness of ‘Housing First,’ a approach that prioritizes providing people experiencing

It creates a visual effect and question in the mind of the reader, which acts as a pivot for the reader to plunge into reading the article with interest due to a newfound

In his second paragraph, Surowiecki compares the costs of a homeless person dependent on the state between the two states of Utah and Colorado. Surowiecki explains, “Homeless people are not cheap to take care of. The cost of shelters, emergency-room visits, ambulances, police, and so on quickly piles up.” Surowiecki uses this phrase in order to make the reader account costs they may not have thought of before, bringing to light the real life costs of a homeless person dependent on the state. He adds, “Lloyd Pendleton, the director of Utah’s Homeless Task Force, told me” “with the traditional approach, the average chronically homeless person used to cost Salt Lake City more than twenty thousand dollars a year. Putting someone into permanent housing costs the state just eight thousand dollars, and that’s after you include the cost of the case managers who work with the formerly homeless to help them adjust.” “The same is true elsewhere. A Colorado study found that the average homeless person cost the state forty-three thousand dollars a year, while housing that person would cost just seventeen thousand dollars.” This comparison heightens the effectiveness of the evidence and gives the reader a feeling of being shown all sides to the story and makes them more receiving of the new, more effective way of