RT Journal
A1 Kuehn BM
T1 SUpportive housing cuts costs of caring for the chronically homeless
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2012
FD July 4
VO 308
IS 1
SP 17
OP 19
DO 10.1001/jama.2012.7045
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.7045
AB 
One of their first calls was to the Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC), a group that ran housing projects targeting mentally ill and other vulnerable homeless populations. The city's leaders asked the DESC to take a “housing-first” approach by creating a new facility where chronically homeless people with severe alcohol abuse problems could find shelter without first having to stop drinking or enter treatment.