How funding to house mentally ill, homeless is a financial gain, not drain
- Written by Carol Caton, Professor of Sociomedical Sciences (Psychiatry and Public Health), Columbia University Medical Center
A director of a supportive housing center in Bronx, New York, talks with a resident and case worker in December 2015. Bebeto Matthews/AP
As Congress considers the federal budget proposal for fiscal year 2018 to reduce funding for services to poor and homeless Americans, programs with proven cost-effectiveness should not be on the chopping block....
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