Globe and Mail
Big Apple's homelessness model bears fruit
By GARY MASON 

Tuesday, September 5, 2006 – Page S1

VANCOUVER -- Canadians like to think of themselves as far more socially
progressive than their neighbours to the south. And yet when it comes to
homelessness, it is the United States that has taken the boldest steps to
eradicate the problem.

And there isn't a city that has been more forward-looking than New York.

In 1990, homelessness, not crime, was the No. 1 issue on the minds of most
New Yorkers. The homeless were everywhere. That year, the census bureau
estimated there were 12,000 people in homeless shelters on any given night
and another 10,000 in visible street and park locations.

The bureau would later concede that the estimates were likely low by four or
five thousand.

Six years later, you had a hard time even finding a homeless person in the
Big Apple. The number of those in shelters was down to 4,000 a night, and
the number on the street was estimated to be between 3,500 and 4,000. What
happened?

In a word, housing...

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