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Monthly Archives: April 2008

Housing First in Vegas

April 30, 2008 – 2:09 pm

Las Vegas adopted in March 2006 a ten-year plan to reduce homelessness. Their plan, like ours, uses Housing First as one strategy. And it looks like it’s working.
The Las Vegas Sun’s Timothy Pratt writes:
Now in its fifth month, Horizon Crest on Owens Avenue is an unusual blend of 66 low-rent apartments for the poor and [...]

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Panhandling MetroPulse

April 17, 2008 – 3:40 pm

Michael Haynes’s The One Year Plan to End Panhandling is in this week’s MetroPulse.
Haynes acknowledges that panhandlers and homeless people are not necessarily the same. That’s true. He also concludes that if you give money to panhandlers, then you’re keeping the institution of panhandling happy and growing. Which is not something anybody but panhandlers wants [...]

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