Robert Greene's 2007 article, A homeless breakthrough?, from the LA Times describes a plan called "Project 50" that is designed to get 50 homeless people, that are likely to die on the streets, off the streets. This project was adopted from an organization called "Common Ground", in New York City, that has successfully gotten many people off the streets and into housing projects. If "Project 50" is successful it will lead to getting 70,000 other homeless people off the streets in Los Angeles. Many plans have been proposed before but none have been effective due to the lack of support. For example, a county plan was recommended but failed because of neighborhood resistance. The steps necessary to make "Project 50" a success includes gathering data, putting the homeless into houses, and keeping them in the homes. This project has the potential of being successful, but it needs the full support of the city, government and residence. With $1.7 million dollars, New York city has helped many homeless people find shelter and Los Angeles has the potential to do the same.
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Question: Do you think more suppot will make "Project 50" successful?
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i think its a great idea! i do think we have the capacity to help many people. if more cooperated, we would actually get somewhere! :D
this story is very good with areally good idea with all the money the we spend in this u.s. i think it would be to the betterment to put forth more time & energy on this because i belive if more people got involved we could acually get somewhere with this problem
I like that idea...I think it is really unfortunate how we America is supposed to be such a "rich" country and such a wonderful place but yet we have so many homeless people out there on the streets. By making good efforts like this one, I think our country will really be able to grow.
This article seems to be popular. I agree with you that the project needs the city and government's support to succeed. I'm really glad that other people decided to read this article. The project will probably succeed with more publicity.
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