Houston Could End Homelessness With Less Than 2,000 Housing Units
In an article published by the Kinder Institute for Urban Research, Mike Nichols, president and CEO of the Coalition for the Homeless of Houston/Harris County, outlines the success the city has had in reducing homelessness and the steps necessary to "effectively end" it. According to Nichols, the three-county homeless response system known as "The Way Home" has placed more than 24,000 people into housing since 2012. Of people housed in the last two years, more than 90 percent have maintained stable housing.
Nichols attributes the success of the program to several factors, including: