What can the Orange County in Florida teach its West Coast counterpart about homelessness? Plenty, says one advocate
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What can the Orange County in Florida teach its West Coast counterpart about homelessness? Plenty, says one advocate
- November 15, 2017
- Research by UCI sociologists Snow and Goldberg featured in the Orange County Register, Nov. 15, 2017
The tab from 2014-2015, as calculated by the UC Irvine researchers who did the analysis,
came out to nearly $300 million. Local municipalities bore about half the burden,
according to the study, titled “Homelessness in Orange County: The Costs to Our Community.”
The study, conducted by UCI professors David Snow and Rachel Goldberg, said $42 million
a year in services could be saved by housing chronically homeless people.
For the full story, please visit http://www.ocregister.com/2017/11/15/what-can-the-orange-county-in-florida-teach-its-west-coast-counterpart-about-homelessness-plenty-says-one-advocate/.
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