New study on homelessness and mental illness has been released

by Richard Brown on August 13, 2007

in Ending Homelessness

The Neighborhood Coalition for Shelter (NCS), a New York based service agency, has been doing a study of the disabilities that they have identified in the homeless that they serve. According NCS their “research shows that chronically homeless individuals are more impaired than we had expected.”

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