TY  - JOUR
T1  - SUpportive housing cuts costs of caring for the chronically homeless
AU  - Kuehn BM
Y1  - 2012/07/04
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2012.7045
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 17
EP  - 19
VL  - 308
IS  - 1
N2  - 
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. 

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.7045
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.7045
ER  -