Word: homelessness
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...definition also excludes married couples and families. And to qualify as “chronically homeless,” one must have a diagnosed disability—a requirement that makes it more difficult to provide certain services to those with unacknowledged physical and mental illnesses, according to Semonoff...
...it’s neither realistic nor fair to expect HIV-positive individuals to reveal their condition to provider agencies in order to obtain basic services, says Katya E. Fels ’93, executive director of the Cambridge-based organization On The Rise, which assists women who are homeless or who face crises such as trauma and abuse...
Mangano—who served as director of homeless services in Cambridge long before joining the Bush administration—says that in recent decades, service providers have turned their attention away from disabled individuals and towards homeless families...
...response to this phenomenon that the Bush administration insisted that more funding be devoted to the “chronically homeless,” according to Mangano...
...some degree the more successful [cities] are, they are victims of their own success in that other homeless people will come into the community and fill up the beds that they are able to empty,” says Eric Belsky, executive director of Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies...