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Not just a place to live: From homelessness to citizenship

  • Written by Michael Rowe, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University

Twenty years ago, Jim lived under a highway bridge in New Haven, Connecticut. He was in his 50s and had once been in the Army.

After an honorable discharge, he bounced from one job to another, drank too much, became estranged from his family and finally ended up homeless. A New Haven mental health outreach team found him one morning sleeping under...

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