The report, released by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo, was compiled by the Urban Institute using 1995 and 1996 data from the Census Bureau. Cuomo described it as the most comprehensive report on homelessness ever. The report found that 60 percent of the homeless living alone and 76 percent of those living in families move to permanent housing after receiving such help as housing subsidies, substance-abuse treatment, job training and education. Such programs are helpful to about 500 Corpus Christi homeless people each year through the Corpus Christi Metro Ministries, said the Rev. Ed Seeger, executive director of Metro Ministries. For everyone, the solution may be different.
Someone has to run boarding houses.
I suppose, but that's not what we do. Pattern of poor choices Case workers help each person to set goals, along with figuring out what will help them move forward, including assessing how someone became homeless. Of the 25 percent who remain homeless, that happens when people leave the program on their own volition, Seeger said. They have walked out of the program on their own and that's their business. Thirty-three percent ran away from home, and 27 percent said they had lived in foster care, a group home or other institution as children.