[2016-01-21] NEW article nations/usa/politics-issues
] # 4985 - amazon-hires-homeless-workers - ] By Joshua Mcnichols @kuow.org - Amazon to offer temp to perm positions to homeless people in Seattle, everyone ends up dissapointed
] # 4421 - an interactive article from cnn.com on kids growing up in homeless encampment known as "the jungle". Located in the heart of silicon valley and surrounded by the tech industry empires,
] Another report .... says Spending an extra $46 per Canadian a year on affordable housing could dramatically reduce homelessness
] Existing intervention programs can only go so far if those who find a way off the streets or out of shelters can't afford their own place to live, say researchers from York University and the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness.
] Their annual State of Homelessness in Canada study was published today.
] 2013 version - http://www.caeh.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Research-and-Policy-V-b-Gaetz.pdf
] Julia Woodhall-Melnik, the author of a year-long study out of McMaster and the Centre for Research on Inner City Health at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto,
] the “graduation” model offered by Wesley Urban Ministries in Hamilton is providing the last, important step to the housing model.
] housing first strategy - get people into homes before addressing other issues
] Barber attributes the program’s success to the fact that a team of support workers spends a full year working with people once they are placed in a home.
] article doesnt really have too many particulars.
] "The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness says the city’s strategy — getting people in homes before addressing their other issues — is an example the rest of the country should follow"