Dallas project shows change in strategy in homeless care

 

September 15, 2016



DALLAS (AP, posted Sept. 14, 2016) — Orderly lines of small homes in the shadow of Interstate 30 in Dallas are a sign that Texas is embracing a national trend of giving the homeless permanent, subsidized housing and augmenting it with support services.

Dallas officials this month unveiled the first of what's expected to be 50 tiny homes that will shelter the city's most chronically homeless. The $6.8 million project is seen as a fresh approach to reducing the number of homeless people in the city and a departure from the tent cities that sprout underneath highway overpasses.

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