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“These kinds of programs have been used historically to ship homeless people out of town. In the homelessness field it was once called Greyhound therapy. Hawaii now goes a step higher with airplane therapy. “It is crafted out of benevolence, empathy and the desire to help one person at a time,” he says. “There are other sections of the bill with far greater appropriations that would probably be far greater in their effectiveness in dealing with homelessness, namely, clean and sober housing, substance abuse treatment and facilities, rental assistance programs.” Sen. Tanaka says the Senate bill references the number of people who used social services in 2011 — about 14,200 across the state. A 2013 count of homelessness (pdf) found that about 6,300 people were either sheltered or unsheltered. Copyright 2013 NPR. To see more, visit npr.org/.
Posted on: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 17:30:48 +0000

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