{"title":"Homeless Services in the U.S.: Looking Back, Looking Forward: An Open Letter to Policymakers, Advocates, and Providers","authors":"M. Fleetwood","doi":"10.2174/1874924001003020027","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Homeless services as we know them today-including housing, health care, and social service systems-emerged th at the end of the 20 century. These services developed separately from mainstream systems of care, further marginalizing people who were displaced by homelessness and poverty. In this editorial, the author proposes strategies for developing comprehensive, inclusive, and targeted responses to end homelessness.","PeriodicalId":88329,"journal":{"name":"The open health services and policy journal","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2010-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The open health services and policy journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1874924001003020027","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Homeless services as we know them today-including housing, health care, and social service systems-emerged th at the end of the 20 century. These services developed separately from mainstream systems of care, further marginalizing people who were displaced by homelessness and poverty. In this editorial, the author proposes strategies for developing comprehensive, inclusive, and targeted responses to end homelessness.