A Strategy for Helping America's Homeless

Publication Date: May 1985

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): S. Anna Kondratas

Research Area: Social conditions

Keywords: Welfare

Type: Report

Abstract:

The homeless are not neglected and ignored. In fact, efforts to feed and house them have been growing in recent years. Ironically, the greater visibility of the homeless stems in part from these attempts to help. The federal government has several programs to aid the homeless. But emergency food and shelter only treats the problem, it does not cure it. An attack must be made on the underlying causes of homelessness and this requires that the states accept the obligations they have sought to avoid. New federal programs will simply produce another coalition of bureaucrats and activists with a vested interest in prolonging the homeless I'crisis.